UK readers probably remember (or are at least aware of) this country's first famous celebrity chef, Fanny Craddock.
You might also have heard the well known anecdote about how she stormed out of the Parkinson talk show studio after finding out that fellow guest Danny La Rue was a man in drag. It's cited in The Guardian, on Wikipedia, just about everywhere.
Except, as this latest impeccably-researched post in the really excellent Dirty Feed UK TV blog explains, it never happened and never even could have happened.
@losttourist John did say that he was concentrating on the blogging side rather than social media (including Twitter) but we'll miss him and let's say 'never say never'. Not that familiar with the Fanny Craddock story but must have gained some traction if not to the extent of a Mickey Mouse cartoon on the BBC Television Service being cut off at the start of WW2 (again didn't happen).
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