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Home More > 28 March 2006 THERESA WAS MY BEST MATE AND A LESBIAN ..WE MARRIED TO MAKE HER MUM HAPPY My life..

PAUL O'GRADY IN HIS OWN WORDS Interview By Sue Carroll IT SEEMED like a good idea at the time.

In 1977 I married my best friend Theresa - a very religious Portuguese girl and a lesbian.

Perfect, then.

We worked together in The Showcase, a club in Westbourne Grove, London, where we earned £4 a night behind the bar.

By day I was working as a physiotherapy assistant in the Royal Northern Hospital and she was a chambermaid at a London hotel.

Theresa's only problem in life - apart from the fact that, like me, she was always skint - was her mother.

And boy, was that a problem.

She was an extremely strict and religious woman who harboured only one ambition: to see her daughter get married and have children.

Poor Theresa.

The family were on at her constantly and one day she came back from a weekend totally drained by the relentless nagging.

So I said: "B****r it, I'll marry you." I appreciate this isn't what normal, sane people do but I didn't have anything to lose.

We were so close that anyone would think we were a couple and s...

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