Bill Cotton, now BBC head of variety, warned the monologues must be free from double entendres, but Williams took no notice. The night before, he had packed a year’s supply into a return appearance on The Eamonn Andrews Show. Stanley Baxter phoned to scold him – how could a man who boasted of his virginal sex-life sit and flirt with Roger Moore on national television, and call him ‘a great dish’? Williams was defiant: ‘Yess, I can do it, dear, cos I know I go home and say my prayers! I’m pure.’
C. Stevens, Born brilliant: the life of Kenneth Williams (2010), loc. 3,791
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