This is a biography of the international TV comedy icon, Benny Hill, published on the tenth anniversary of his death. Benny Hill cut an unlikely figure of global admiration: he was a deeply private individual, a loner, uninterested in money and the trappings of success. With the circus and sex in his background, Benny combined the two in a career, that, after many struggles, took off in the earliest days of television. Acclaimed in the 1950s as the first TV comedy superstar, loved for his pioneering ideas and mild seaside ...
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This is a biography of the international TV comedy icon, Benny Hill, published on the tenth anniversary of his death. Benny Hill cut an unlikely figure of global admiration: he was a deeply private individual, a loner, uninterested in money and the trappings of success. With the circus and sex in his background, Benny combined the two in a career, that, after many struggles, took off in the earliest days of television. Acclaimed in the 1950s as the first TV comedy superstar, loved for his pioneering ideas and mild seaside-postcard humour, Hill's popularity remained undimmed for decades. But in the 1980s, just as he became a hit in more than 100 countries, he was reviled in Britain. His innuendo-strewn humour was branded sexist, a charge he could not comprehend. Unmarried, emotionally enfeebled in his few meaningful relationships, Benny's primary aim was to be seen in the company of scantily clad women. His TV show enabled this, but its sudden end in 1989 was followed by the self-inflicted decline in his health. Benny died in 1992, is body lay undiscovered for two days and the destiny of his u7m estate was controversial."
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