Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

Schoolboy Maurice Cole, growing up in 1960s Liverpool, is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes, one of which impresses agent Wilfred De'ath through whom he gets a job on a pirate radio station, changing his name to Kenny Everett. Though sacked for annoying the sponsor his popularity sees him working on the BBC's newly-formed Radio One. Around this time he meets and marries Lee Middleton, who not only sticks by him through his career lows but is sympathetic when, following a drugs over-dose, he admits to being gay. She even helps him find a boyfriend though, unlike his friend Freddie Mercury, he is reluctant to come out. Following their divorce Kenny is best man when Lee marries actor John Alkin and, in 1985, in typically flamboyant style comes out, owing to having not one but two 'husbands'. However, in 1989 he is diagnosed as HIV+ and, in 1995, a year after winning the prestigious Sony award, dies of AIDS aged fifty.

Release Date : 2012-10-02

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Character Name : Kenny Everett

Original Name : Oliver Lansley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lee Everett-Alkin

Original Name : Katherine Kelly

Gender : Female

Character Name : Lily Cole

Original Name : Angela Lonsdale

Gender : Female

Character Name : Tom Cole

Original Name : Tony Pitts

Gender : Male

Character Name : Maurice Cole

Original Name : Perry Millward

Gender : Male

Character Name : John Alkin

Original Name : Jonathan Kerrigan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wilfred De'Ath

Original Name : James Wilby

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jacko

Original Name : Glenn Wild

Gender : Male

Character Name : Iolo

Original Name : Tomos Eames

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tony Windsor

Original Name : Adam Garcia

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dickie Attenborough

Original Name : Simon Callow

Gender : Male

Character Name : Toby

Original Name : James McArdle

Gender : Male

Character Name : Philip

Original Name : Leon Ockenden

Gender : Male

Character Name : Garner Ted Armstrong

Original Name : Trevor White

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nikolai

Original Name : Uriel Emil Pollack

Gender : Male

Character Name : Michael Winner

Original Name : Andrew Greenough

Gender : Male

Character Name : TV Director

Original Name : Alex Macqueen

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pepe

Original Name : Stefano Braschi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Freddie Mercury

Original Name : James Floyd

Gender : Male

Character Name : BBC Receptionist

Original Name : Deirdre Mullins

Gender : Female

Character Name : BBC Commissionaire

Original Name : Mike Burnside

Gender : Male

Character Name : BBC Senior Producer

Original Name : Don Gallagher

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dancer

Original Name : Remi Black

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dancer

Original Name : Bethany Harrison

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dancer

Original Name : Israel Donowa

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dancer

Original Name : Cristina Hoey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dancer

Original Name : Anabel Kutay

Gender : Female

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