i keep hearing/ reading that Julian Clary a few years ago about the Tory minister Norman Lamont at an award ceremony. i have never heard what he was supposed to have said. does anyone know?
Seems to have got through the auto-censor - apologies Ed if it is unacceptable.
No, Etehl, Julian said he had been - hence the shocked silence and nervous laughter - even Johnathan Ross looked stunned! It destroyed Clarey's TV career for years, and nothing he has done since has reached a second series - so it's possible that this facet of his career may never recover.
Ethel, Julian didn't say he would love to, but had been.
The end of the joke ( and the whole point for saying it,) was drowned out by the laughter, but it was something along the lines of "now his box really is red".