Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
2012-10-02 | 89 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Oliver LansleyKenny Everett
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Katherine KellyLee Everett-Alkin
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Angela LonsdaleLily Cole
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Tony PittsTom Cole
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Jonathan KerriganJohn Alkin
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James WilbyWilfred De'Ath
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Tomos EamesIolo
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Adam GarciaTony Windsor
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Simon CallowDickie Attenborough
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James McArdleToby
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Leon OckendenPhilip
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Trevor WhiteGarner Ted Armstrong
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Uriel Emil PollackNikolai
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Andrew GreenoughMichael Winner
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Alex MacqueenTV Director
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Stefano BraschiPepe
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James FloydFreddie Mercury
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Deirdre MullinsBBC Receptionist
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