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  1. Oct 22, 2017 · The lady who played Daphne in Frasier Jane Leeves said she was asked to audition for Benny Hill when she left drama school and go to his house to do the audition and she said there was nothing overly sexual about him at all and that they read the sketches together and she got on the show as a Hills Angel.

  2. Girls would be summoned to Hill's bedroom for casting, confessed Cheryl Gilham, a pillowy Page-Three stunner who'd accepted an invitation to "please Uncle Benny". Stefanie Marrian, who was 16 when she first visited Hill, remembered that "I'd never seen a man naked before and the sight of Benny was no laughing matter.

  3. Oct 22, 2017 · Benny Hill was exceptionally wealthy but chose to live a very modest life-style in a small Southampton semi;…the house once belonged to his mother I believe. In real life he was probably closer to Fred Scuttle than Hugh Hefner.

  4. Apr 23, 2014 · It wasn't far from the Thames studio. He'd be sat in the back bar, minding his own business. The back bar was full of old Thames Studio props, including a stuffed camel. The kings head they have loads of photos on the wall of Benny when he was a regular in there.

  5. Aug 18, 2017 · 18/08/17 - 16:18 #28. Personally I don't think Benny Hill gets the credit he deserves, largely because of his lazy, repetitive, unfunny and pretty offensive latter years. But in his early years on television he was the complete opposite, a real innovator, and a very underrated wordsmith who, at his best, could rival the likes of Ronnie Barker.

  6. Jun 20, 2014 · When The Benny Hill Show was cancelled in 1989, the ITV regions showed virtually no "alternative" comedy. Benny's old and stale show was simply replaced by newer "broad" comedy such as Bobby Davro and Brian Conley. Elton didn't even have a regular ITV show until the awful Get a Grip, over a decade after Hill's death.

  7. forums.digitalspy.com › discussion › 1771910Benny Hill — Digital Spy

    Dec 15, 2012 · 15/12/12 - 16:45 #1. While he is often loathed by the alternative brigade, and his last few years were poor, at his peak Benny Hill was a brilliant comedian. Highlights to me were his silent sketches, his send ups of adverts and popular television shows, his comedy songs and the chase scene at the end. Yes it might appear sexist at times, but ...

  8. forums.digitalspy.com › discussion › 2389607Benny Hill — Digital Spy

    Sep 16, 2020 · Benny Hill is on YouTube. That’s where you can watch lots of old archived comedies, dramas and lots more. But sadly both BBC and ITV wiped lots of there old recordings made for TV, as the tapes that both BBC and ITV used to record programmes during the 1960’s and 1970’s where expensive to buy.

  9. Oct 22, 2017 · 22/10/17 - 10:10 #26. People saying it does not surprise are thinking of his one screen character when he used to play a dirty old man. In that the women used to chase him odd how many people get this wrong way around. In real life Benny Hill was a shy person and socially found interactions a bit difficult.

  10. Nov 18, 2021 · Benny Hill on "Thats TV Gold". "Nostalgia channel That's TV Gold is to air the comedian’s work from his time at Thames TV from 1969 to 1989. The reruns will form part of the festive schedule on the Freeview channel, which is being renamed That's TV Christmas for the season." "The channel launches under its new name at 9pm tonight, starting ...