Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Oliver Lansley

Kenny Everett

Age : N/A | Popularity : 36%

Katherine Kelly

Lee Everett-Alkin

Age : N/A | Popularity : 51%

Angela Lonsdale

Lily Cole

Age : N/A | Popularity : 15%

Tony Pitts

Tom Cole

Age : N/A | Popularity : 24%

Perry Millward

Maurice Cole

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Jonathan Kerrigan

John Alkin

Age : N/A | Popularity : 15%

James Wilby

Wilfred De'Ath

Age : 66 | Popularity : 66%

Glenn Wild

Jacko

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	James Strong
Production	Head of Production	Jon Williams
Department	Role	Name

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