Aspel has coped with worse behaviour from stars in his career — remember the night Ollie Reed staggered onto his talk show roaring drunk? The comic launched into a series of one-liners so crass that the audience was gasping with embarrassment. It’s a jaw-dropping bit of footage: ‘I don’t want you to think I’m a dirty old man,’ Hope told the crowd. You’re getting paid to be made into what I want.’Bob Hope himself might wince at a line like that. Fox’s signature in this outstanding series has been the way he tries to step into the images he is discussing.

Source: Daily Mail March 17, 2020 01:26 UTC