Paul O’Grady has died, 67.

[LaLaLand]

This is sad. Passed away suddenly but peacefully according to his partner.

RIP Paul. :love:

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[bots]

yep, he was certainly a character. Something we are lacking these days

[Mystic Mock]

Shocking news.

RIP

[arista]

Real Great Presenter
helped so much with Dogs
In recent years.


https://news.sky.com/story/paul-ogrady-death-tributes-for-really-special-comedian-and-tv-presenter-12844612

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65108130

[AnnieK]

Sad news. :sad:

[arista]

China's Covid set him back
this last year.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/03/29/03/69231037-11913831-Paul_and_Amanda_Holden_chat_to_Camilla_then_the_Du chess_of_Cornw-m-25_1680057780843.jpg
Happy times, before Covid-19

[Vanessa]

Really sad news :bawling:

[arista]

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[Niamh.]

Very sad, that's pretty young really

[thesheriff443]

A beautiful human being

[hijaxers]

Very sad news to wake up to . RIP Paul the people and the Battersea dogs will miss you.

[GoldHeart]

So Sad
R.I.P.
That's another funny great entertainer we've lost now x .

[Oliver_W]

:(

[Kazanne]

.This brought tears to my eyes this morning,he was such a lovely man and did so much for dogs, such a loss of a kind person ,RIP Paul.Great loss to dogs .

[joeysteele]

This is very sad news.
Great character.
This is definitely someone who will be greatly missed.
R.I.P.

[Crimson Dynamo]

so sad

He had just signed for Boom radio and i was looking forward to his new show with Malcolm his producer

[Cherie]

No...For the love of dogs was my favourite show

RIP Paul

[arista]

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A nice visit from Paul.

[Cherie]

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A nice visit from Paul.

:sad:

[GoldHeart]

I saw a photo taken of him yesterday , he looked fine and well, just shows how precious life is .

[Kate!]

Got tears in my eyes. God bless.

RIP Paul, a great loss to humanity

[arista]

I saw a photo taken of him yesterday , he looked fine and well, just shows how precious life is .


Yes, he was getting ready
for a new show on Boom radio

[Gusto Brunt]

I listened to his Christmas Day Show on Boom Radio, and he was due to be on Boom again this coming Easter Sunday.

In fact, I heard he and his producer Malcolm had met up yesterday to talk about the show. Paul was laughing and joking and then he said I am going to lie on the couch for a quick nap. Apparently he died in his sleep. Very sad and sudden.

He had also been doing this Annie musical. Maybe he was overdoing it. :(

RIP. :(

[rusticgal]

So sad, so young. A very funny man with a big heart.

[Redway]

Very sad, that's pretty young really

Very sad indeed.

RIP.

[Cherie]

I didn’t realise he had had 3 heart attacks I knew he had one.i feel like he pushed himself into an early grave as he seemed to have a very busy schedule

[joeysteele]

.This brought tears to my eyes this morning,he was such a lovely man and did so much for dogs, such a loss of a kind person ,RIP Paul.Great loss to dogs .

He was very strong on animal welfare Kazanne.:wavey:
One of the really very GOOD guys.

[Redway]

I didn’t realise he had had 3 heart attacks I knew he had one.i feel like he pushed himself into an early grave as he seemed to have a very busy schedule

Sometimes you just never really know what people are going through.

[GiRTh]

R.I.P.

[Kazanne]

He was very strong on animal welfare Kazanne.:wavey:
One of the really very GOOD guys.

I agree Joey, its never nice losing someone,but someone so kind to animals ,we need more like him,not less,its really sad.

[hijaxers]

I agree Joey, its never nice losing someone,but someone so kind to animals ,we need more like him,not less,its really sad.

There's another series filmed ready to go , it will watched by everyone who loved Paul.

[AnnieK]

I didn’t realise he had had 3 heart attacks I knew he had one.i feel like he pushed himself into an early grave as he seemed to have a very busy schedule

He had a family history of heart disease too. Gis parents had heart attacks in the same week....his mum survived but his dad passed away

[Cherie]

I spent most of me childhood in Ireland,” Paul O’Grady said on RTÉ Radio 1′s Ryan Tubridy Show in 2015. “My family is down in Galway and Roscommon; they’ve got a farm there. I loved it as a kid.”

Born in Birkenhead, near Liverpool, O’Grady was born to Irish parents. His mother’s maiden name was Savage – which is believed to have inspired his famous drag alter ego, Lily Savage. His father came from Glinsk, Co Galway, and his mother from Co Louth.

“I remember my dad when I was a kid used to say we were related to Irish royalty, and we all used to laugh at him,” he recalled. “He’d say: ‘King Athel of Glinsk.’ And there’s actually Glinsk castle, and I wonder if there’s any truth in it. I’d quite fancy being Irish royalty!”

His Dad was born into the Grady family in Ballincurry just outside Glinsk, and moved to England after struggling with farmwork, later discovering he had tuberculosis (TB).

O’Grady came when me Dad came over and joined the airforce. They slung an ‘O’ in front of the Grady, so that’s why I’m an O’Grady. I don’t think he could be bothered changing it ... He’s a true Irishman, me father, through and through.”

O’Grady visited Ireland about twice a year growing up and came to Dublin regularly. He had pallets of turf sent over from Ireland. “I love the smell of it. That to me is the smell of Ireland: a turf fire with a frying pan with rashers going on and a bit of black pudding ... anything for a bit of turf.”

O’Grady had a role in Jim Sheridan’s In the Name of the Father (1993), in which Daniel Day-Lewis won best leading actor at the Oscars. He spent three weeks filming in Kilmainham Gaol, including Easter Sunday, on the anniversary of the Easter Rising.

“It was very sad in the jail, but a great experience,” O’Grady later said.

He spoke of having several heart attacks previously. “It’s up to you really how you recover,” he said. “You can either sit on the sofa counting your tablets or you can get on with it – and I chose the latter.”


O’Grady was well known for his love of animals. His Irish uncle taught him to milk a cow in Ireland, a skill that came in handy later in life when he owned cows, pigs, goats, chickens and sheep at his farm in Kent.

“All that stems from my love of the farm when I was a kid in Glinsk, it never goes away stuff like that.”

Speaking to Pat Kenny on The Late Late Show in 2008, O’Grady said he had a farm “because of Ireland. Because I was brought up on the farm, and I thought if I ever get a few bob – never mind the fancy cars and all that – I’m gonna get a bit of land and a cow. I’ve got [cows], pigs, goats, chickens and sheep.”


The TV star, also known for his drag queen persona Lily Savage, died “unexpectedly but peacefully” on Tuesday evening, a statement shared with the PA news agency via a representative said.

O’Grady’s partner Andre Portasio said in a statement: “It is with great sadness that I inform you that Paul has passed away unexpectedly but peacefully yesterday evening.”

“He will be greatly missed by his loved ones, friends, family, animals and all those who enjoyed his humour, wit and compassion. I know that he would want me to thank you for all the love you have shown him over the years.”

O’Grady and Portasio were married during a low-key wedding ceremony in 2017. – Additional reporting: PA

The Irish Times

[arista]

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[arista]

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[GoldHeart]

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:love: awww

[arista]

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[arista]

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[arista]

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[Crimson Dynamo]

a lovely man

[LaLaLand]

A national treasure by all accounts. Genuinely gutted.

Grown up watching him, literally.

In the mid-late 90's I'd watch Lily on The Big Breakfast before school and then later Blankety Blank straight after school. As a teenager, I'd come home from high school and watch his show at 5 with my tea. Then more recently I've never missed his show with the dogs.

RIP Paul. :love:

[Kate!]

A national treasure by all accounts. Genuinely gutted.

Grown up watching him, literally.

In the mid-late 90's I'd watch Lily on The Big Breakfast before school and then later Blankety Blank straight after school. As a teenager, I'd come home from high school and watch his show at 5 with my tea. Then more recently I've never missed his show with the dogs.

RIP Paul. :love:

Yes truly gutted. I've shed quite a few tears. It's not fully sunk in yet that he's gone. :bawling:

[Denver]

RIP Paul and Lily, one of the true good guys who really loved his animals.

I saw a story that when he did does shows he requests that they advertise the available jobs in the local job centre to give people in that area a break when they needed one

[GoldHeart]

RIP Paul and Lily, one of the true good guys who really loved his animals.

I saw a story that when he did does shows he requests that they advertise the available jobs in the local job centre to give people in that area a break when they needed one

Aww he was such a thoughtful nice man . I always grew up with him as Lily Savage,but as I got older I appreciated his Paul o Grady show on channel 4 and I always watched it :love: .

[Livia]

Completed gutted by this news. A real loss...

[joeysteele]

I agree Joey, its never nice losing someone,but someone so kind to animals ,we need more like him,not less,its really sad.

We do indeed need more like him Kazanne.
A really good man.

[Mystic Mock]

We do indeed need more like him Kazanne.
A really good man.

I agree.

[Vanessa]

I still can't believe he's gone.
He was one of a kind. One of my favourite TV stars. I miss him already :bawling:

[arista]

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[arista]

[Paul O'Grady: Donations since his death
overwhelm Battersea Cats and Dog Home
Donations to an animal charity loved
by Paul O'Grady
have passed £100,000 since
the star's death.

Battersea Cats and Dogs Home said it was
"overwhelmed and touched" by the donations.
The TV and radio presenter became an
ambassador for the charity in 2012 after
hosting For The Love Of Dogs,
which had 11 series filmed there.
After his death on Tuesday evening at
the age of 67, the animal charity set
up a tribute fund.]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65147502

[arista]

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[arista]

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[arista]

His Funeral in Kent
has gone on today.

[arista]

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[arista]

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[Cherie]

Very touching procession :bawling:

[Kazanne]

Very sad, he will be missed x

[arista]

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[arista]

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[LaLaLand]

The animal lover left the £500,000 to Battersea, as well as donations of £50,000 to elephant and orangutan charities.

He also gave £50,000 to the Salvation Army, who had helped him when he was growing up in Liverpool and where he also volunteered as a teenager.

What a class act by an amazing man. Such a kind soul. RIP Paul, truly missed. :love:

[Cherie]

It is nothing more than I would expect from Paul, a truely good man

[Mystic Mock]

A good person till the end.

[arista]

A good person till the end.

Very True

[bots]

He loved animals and this backs it up

[Crimson Dynamo]

Good man

:love:

[arista]

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[Ammi]

….ahhhhh, I watched the video yesterday…it’s hard to believe that he was so close to his death…bittersweet, I’m glad that it happened quickly for him….

[Livia]

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What a beautiful picture and very much how I like to remember him.

[arista]

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