Freddie Starr

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Freddie Starr (born Frederick Leslie Fowell, 1943 – 9 May 2019) was an English stand up comedian, impressionist, guitarist, and actor.

During the 1960s, the Midniters' lead singer rose to fame in the early 1970s after appearing on Opportunity Knocks and the Royal Variety Show.

He appeared in many television shows in the 1990s, including Freddie Starr (1993–94), The Freddie Starr Show (1996–98) and An Audience with Freddie Starr in 1996.

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Early life

In Huyton, England, a star of Lancashire, England, was born. Starr, the son of a bricklayer who was often unemployed, was one of seven children. Hilda (née Feten) was from Germany and was Jewish, according to Starr. At birth, a twin brother died of heart disease. When his father, who was also a naked boxer, was inebriated, he beat Starr up often as a young child. His father broke both of his son's legs in one incident. Starr stopped speaking at the age of six and was taken into care of by the government. He was teetotal for life as a result of these experiences. Starr's 2001 autobiography Unwrapped discusses why he spent two years away from home as a child. He attended Sylvester's Primary and later Huyton Secondary Modern. When Starr was in his early teens, his father died.

His mother encouraged the actor to perform from the age of 12 in bars and pubs. He was a member of the Hilda Fallon Roadshow, which took visitors from community halls and hospitals for five years.

Personal life

From his teenage years onwards, the actor was an avid fan of Everton F.C., and he was a vegetarian. He appeared on ITV's coverage of the 1984 FA Cup Final, in which Everton defeated Elton John's Watford 2–0. On the morning of the game, he appeared on the lawn outside the hotel where the Everton team was staying and gave an impromptu comedy show to the participants who watched from the windows of their rooms.

Robin Coxhead, a Starr gardener, was charged with stealing £41,000 worth of jewelry from the comedian's house in April 1994. When asked by the police, Coxhead said the jewelry had been given to him as a reward because he had been giving oral sex to Starr for five years. However, Coxhead was discredited in court when he was unable to say whether Starr's penis was circumcised or not. In 1995, Coxhead was found guilty and sentenced to 15 months in jail.

In October 2012, Starr obtained an injunction to stop a lawsuit from being made concerning his personal life. The injunction was reversed because it was deemed to be a case involving potential defamation, which the media outlets were unlikely to announce. Channel 4 News announced charges relating to Starr's appearance on Jimmy Savile's BBC television show Clunk Click in 1974, which he denied through his counsel and in media interviews.

Starr was arrested by police at his Warwickshire home on November 1st, 2012, as part of Operation Yewtree. He was arrested on three separate occasions, with no links to Savile, the first being on February 14, 2014. The allegations against him were denied by the actor. On May 6, 2014, the Crown Prosecution Service had ruled not to bring charges against Starr in connection with the allegations due to "insufficient evidence."

The High Court dismissed a suit by slander and libel brought by Starr against the woman who had made the allegations relating to his appearance on Clunk Click in 1974. The woman's assertion was found to be correct, but the lawsuit was unable to proceed due to time. He immigrated to Spain but denied it due to the court bill's estimated value of £1 million, but said he had intended to move to Spain despite the outcome of the court case.

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Entertainment career

He appeared as a youth in the film Violent Playground (1958), under his birth name. Starr, the founding singer of the Merseybeat pop band The Midniters (also spelt as Midnighters), was led by Brian Epstein in the early 1960s. The group released three singles, one of which was produced by Joe Meek. The singles were all unsuccessful in the charts. During this period, the Starr's band appeared in Hamburg's nightclubs, roughly the same as the Beatles.

Starr was "discovered" on television audiences in 1967, when he appeared in comedy/beat act Freddie Starr and the Delmonts, winning the popular vote each time over six weeks. He appeared in the second act of the 1970 Royal Variety Exhibition, in which he performed comedy impersonations of Cliff Richard, Tom Jones, Adam Faith, Billy Fury, Norman Wisdom, and Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. He was known for impersonating Adolf Hitler in Wellington boots. Elvis Presley and Ray Charles were also impersonated by him during his career. Throughout his career, the actor had released a number of albums, one of which, "It's You," became a UK Top ten hit in March 1974. Two of his albums were charted: After the Laughter in 1989 and The Wanderer in 1990.

He appeared on television shows Who Do You Do From 1972 to 1972. Jokers Wild, a regular on the TV panel show Jokers Wild, is an entertainer. Ready Freddie Starr (1974), the actor's first attempt at his own series, was reduced to a single special program due to Starr's differences with the production team at London Weekend Television (LWT). In 1976, he appeared in his own BBC series. "Relied on broad punchlines and silly slapstick," Mark Lawson wrote. In his Guardian obituary of Starr, Stuart Jeffries said that his performance was a "pre-cerebral, unrepentantly sexist, often racist comedy that had been rendered largely obsolete by the late 1980s."

Starr suffered with Valium for 20 years, beginning in 1974. "Addled his talent and confused his personality," the chat show host Michael Parkinson said, eroding "a virtuosity equalled by just a select few entertainers."

Freddie Starr was the subject of one of Britain's most well known tabloid newspaper headlines. "Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster" was the Sun's most popular headline on March 13, 1986. Starr and his 23-year-old girlfriend Lea La Salle, in Birchwood, Cheshire, were staying at the home of his friend Vince McCaffrey and his 23-year-old girlfriend Lea La Salle when the incident occurred. In the early hours of the morning, the starr appeared to have returned home from a performance at a Manchester nightclub in the early hours of the morning and demanded that La Salle bring him a sandwich. He stepped into the kitchen and sandwiched her pet hamster Supersonic between two slices of bread and proceeded to eat it when she refused.

In his 2001 autobiography Unwrapped, the actor said that the only time he ever stayed at Vince McCaffrey's house was in 1979, and that it was a complete fabrication. "I have never eaten or even nibbled a live hamster, guinea pig, mouse, shrew, vole, or some other small mammal," the author says.

Initially, the story had no influence on the actor's career, but it soon became a success. Tickets for a forthcoming tour were slowly selling, but after the headline in The Sun, the media has resulted in the addition of 12 dates to his itinerary and is believed to have raised Starr's price by one million. Max Clifford, the British publicist who created the film as a practical joke, was the man behind the hamster tale. When asked in a television interview with Esther Rantzen some years ago if Starr had eaten a hamster, he replied, "Of course not." Clifford was unapologetic, insisting that the plot gave him a major boost to his actor's career.

The BBC nominated "Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster" as one of the most popular British newspaper headlines over the past decade in May 2006.

In a newspaper interview, the actor's annoyance with being glued to the hamster tale was expressed: "I'm sick of people yelling out, 'Did you eat the hamster, Freddie?" Now I'll tell you, please give me £1 and I'll tell you. If they give me £1, I say, 'No' and walk away'. According to the actor, the incident came after he made an offhand joke about eating a hamster in a sandwich.

"Freddie Starr Joins His Hamster" was the Sun's front-page headline after Starr's death.

Central was the actor seen on Freddie Starr (1993–94) and The Freddie Starr Exhibition (1996–98). He threw handfuls of live maggots at the audience at the start of his appearance on LWT's An Audience with Freddie Starr in 1996. However, Another Audience with Freddie Starr followed in 1997. He brought eggs with a golf club into the audience this time.

Miinnehoma, the winning horse in the 1994 Grand National Championships, was the proprietor of the Miinnehoma. He was unable to attend on the day due to television commitments elsewhere, but he did give Des Lynam a rare post-race interview via cell phone, but viewers were able to only hear Lynam's reactions to what Starr was saying.

Starr appeared on Living with the Dead in March 2009, a reality television show about people being haunted by ghosts. Freddie said an evil entity called George was haunting his 1930s home. It appeared that he was possessed by this entity during the exhibition. Roger was later discovered that the firm's name was later revealed. Freddie claims that since he was a child, he was always religious and firmly believed in ghosts.

The star was supposed to tour in 2010, but the tour was postponed after he suffered a major heart attack in April 2010, resulting in quadruple heart bypass surgery. Since recovering, the tour dates were rescheduled for 2011.

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