Originally Posted by Danny_Girl:
“Have I miss-remembered something here - apologies if I have, senior brain!
Didn't Ken Dodd get done for major tax evasion 20/30 years ago?
If so then how on earth can he be considered worthy of a title. People are up in arms about Victoria Beckhm but surely this is a country mile more of a travesty.”
Not quite. He had to pay back some extra tax based on estimates of his assets, but it was deemed he wasn't evading.
Dodd is, at least, well known in entertainment circles for living purely to make people laugh. My sister in law managed a theatre in Leamington Spa and had a childcare issue early one evening. Ken Dodd had turned up for his gig that evening and spotted her desperately trying to sort out my nephew and the theatre and offered to look after him until my brother got back from a meeting. By the time my brother arrived to pick him up, he didn't want to leave Mr Dodd behind -he was in fits of giggles.
Just as well, really, as whenever Ken Dodd is doing a gig, the theatre manager doesn't get to go home until the wee hours of the morning!