Thought For The Day: Julian Clary

We’ve all moved on a bit. People are more open-minded about homosexuality now.
I started out doing Trick Or Treat, an ITV teatime show with me and Mike Smith, and the reviews at the time said, ‘Get this poof off our screens’. It wouldn’t happen now. But that’s what people were thinking at the time.

The Sun.

The lovely - but a bit rude - Julian is a judge on something called Your Face Sounds Familiar, which is on the tellybox on Saturday nights, apparently.

It’s rather daring of them to hire me. I understand the executive nervousness. They were wandering around in the first week telling me I can’t say any innuendos whatsoever!
I said that the whole point of a double meaning is that for those that are easily offended, it can mean another thing!
I think in double entendres half the time anyway!
Cheek is what people want and expect, though it’s a fine line to tread. It goes through phases.
The whole business with Jonathan Ross and all of that has made everyone very nervous about going too far. We’re going through a fairly conservative, cautious phase. But it’s not like it was in 1993 when I said what I said [about fisting the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont] and it caused a fuss.

PS Loving Julian's loving tribute to ye olde drag artiste Douglas Byng on the wireless, Byng Ballads. Listen up, dudes.