Friendly and fiery, compassionate and uncompromising, O’Grady and his alter ego Lily Savage made friends wherever they went. Readers remember the groundbreaking, down-to-earth comedian
When Paul O’Grady died on Wednesday at the age of 67, tributes poured in from everywhere, from writers, entertainers, politicians and anyone affected by his life and work.
Born to a working-class Irish family in Wirral, O’Grady was a care worker before making a name for himself on the London gay scene in the 1980s with his drag persona, Lily Savage. In the years after, O’Grady became a household name, known for his political and animal rights activism as well as his warmth and quick wit.
