Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

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  • Run time: 89 min
  • Premiere: 2012. October 2.

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.

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Oliver Lansley

Kenny Everett

Katherine Kelly

Lee Everett-Alkin

Angela Lonsdale

Lily Cole

Tony Pitts

Tom Cole

Perry Millward

Maurice Cole

Jonathan Kerrigan

John Alkin

James Wilby

Wilfred De'Ath

Adam Garcia

Tony Windsor

Simon Callow

Dickie Attenborough

Trevor White

Garner Ted Armstrong

Andrew Greenough

Michael Winner

Alex Macqueen

TV Director

James Floyd

Freddie Mercury

Deirdre Mullins

BBC Receptionist

Mike Burnside

BBC Commissionaire

Don Gallagher

BBC Senior Producer

Remi Black

Dancer

Directing

James Strong

Director

Production

Jon Williams

Head of Production

Directing

James Strong

Director

Production

Jon Williams

Head of Production