IT’S A FUNNY OLD WORLD

Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers

I could justifiably claim this year to have been a professional actor for 70 years. In 1956, when I was just 13, I was recruited to play the imaginary son of Eleanor Summerfield, the star of a Granada

IT’S A FUNNY OLD WORLD

From his three pet cats to Three Lions , the comedian is a feline-obsessive

The iconic singer knows a place where the bouillabaisse is fine – a tiny spot on the French Riviera serving bowlfuls steeped in garlic, sunshine and family memories