Paul O'Grady's speech at Cilla Black's funeral

I have been asked to talk about winery on numerous occasions, but I never thought I would do it now at a time like this because I firmly believe that the curriculum is indestructible and that I would definitely go first to the state of my art in In fact, we talked at length about my

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, Meetzilla, and she had a big role in it that involved the mantilla and the lilies, so I'm going to have to rethink that now, aren't I? I have fabulous silly stories because we just had a good time together, you know, every time we went on vacation together or even if he went just to eat something simple, something always happened to me, usually I met her at the Parkinson's chat show and we got on well, we just clicked, we were soulmates and then after Bobby died I went to the house for dinner and we sat until five in the morning and decided to go stay with Peter Brown in New York, which we did and I introduced him to the good things about New York. like bars, burlesque shows and nightclubs with such a reputation, the taxi drivers were always reluctant to leave us, but I always told them to give us their jewelry seller so I could have the ring, the necklace, all the pieces in my pockets permanently. me handing over my pocket terrified in case I lost it but she loved life if you told me what you think of zilla one word laugh because that's all we did we just laughed constantly we got into a lot of trouble I admit it but we laughed while we did it You know, I remember losing our keys and getting stuck in the window in Barbados while I was holding her ankles and when the neighbors came out she screamed surprise, surprise and then came the time I broke my nose in a hot tub. and barbados pat will tell you about this hat he came running up the stairs he couldn't find ice he had a bag of frozen sprouts and he hit it in the face i think he broke it even more and

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had been sunbathing sunbathing she had no makeup in her hair, it was on the ends and then we all ran out into the street and she, for some, I don't know where she got it from, should have a jean skirt and some kind of terrible

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nylon slip on her swimsuit. with some gauze she looked like Tessie Torah and I had frozen sprouts from the toilet paper and we all ran out to the hospital and there was a full waiting room and you can probably imagine the force when we walked in I had still taken a water pill and she was also bat cold so she was in and out of the bathrooms constantly going out, we both look absolutely shameless but these are the memories I have of loving this lady so much.

I have no idea that she was one of my closest friends, she was one of my closest friends, I absolutely adored her and even if I hadn't spoken to her for a while, we always picked up where we left off when we were together and I always found it quite notable one of the things she always used to tell me was don't tell our roberts, she said that a lot, she also said don't tell him, come on in and don't tell peter brown, so I'm afraid. You three, that's a promise I'm going to keep, so I'm not going to sing like a Canadian today.

She said that after Bobby died, I taught him to laugh again and I never knew it until I read about it in the papers. and that really bothered me, but on the other hand she also said that he sent a guardian angel only that this one had hooves, horns and a tail with no proof that he was one, she is right that he returned home today because, as Robert so correctly said which was a true daughter of London of London of Liverpool sorry, it made it then a true daughter of Liverpool because um, Scotty Road was never too far away nor was Paddy's Market.

I don't forget the humiliation of being in Gucci's on Madison Avenue in New York. a haggle over the price of a coaster that I desperately wanted I don't know why it was a full length sheepskin and I look like a geriatric in costume at another convention but Stella said if you want to call the big gaddis and she said to the guy, there's a brand on this and I go there, yeah, big mark on that, so we said, well we have one and I know we're going home, she said tonight no and then she said the classic plan, what are you going to do?

It was for Reddie, she was just, I don't know, she taught me a lot of things, mainly to never turn left or right on the plane, in that way she was a great friend, she was full of fun, she was a wonderful woman. , she was talented, she was so resourceful, she adored her family, she loved her children, she loved her grandchildren, she is so proud to have come from scotty road and I am so grateful that she let me into a whirlwind life and we spent almost two decades together, raising hell if you're part of the expression if you're part of the expression through london new york barbados spain and the maldives and she just loved her every day she was a great friend so i don't know what i'm going to do do Actually the light went out a couple of weeks ago and it hasn't come back to this and then I'm going to miss it a lot so I would just like to say thank you for all the fun, thank you for all the laughs and like me.

I always used to say here tell our gail I will see you on the highway of life thank you transportation say three hail marys