Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story (2012)

Schoolboy Maurice Cole, growing up in 1960s Liverpool, is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes, one of which impresses agent Wilfred De'ath through whom he gets a job on a pirate radio station, changing his name to Kenny Everett. Though sacked for annoying the sponsor his popularity sees him working on the BBC's newly-formed Radio One. Around this time he meets and marries Lee Middleton, who not only sticks by him through his career lows but is sympathetic when, following a drugs over-dose, he admits to being gay. She even helps him find a boyfriend though, unlike his friend Freddie Mercury, he is reluctant to come out. Following their divorce Kenny is best man when Lee marries actor John Alkin and, in 1985, in typically flamboyant style comes out, owing to having not one but two 'husbands'. However, in 1989 he is diagnosed as HIV+ and, in 1995, a year after winning the prestigious Sony award, dies of AIDS aged fifty.

Directing:
  • James Strong

Stars:
Release Date: 2012-10-02
themoviedb icon 5.0/10
  • Language: en
  • Runtime: 89
Katherine Kelly
Katherine Kel...
Lee Everett-Alkin
Oliver Lansley
Oliver Lansle...
Kenny Everett
Leon Ockenden
Leon Ockenden
Philip
Angela Lonsdale
Angela Lonsda...
Lily Cole
Tony Pitts
Tony Pitts
Tom Cole
Jonathan Kerrigan
Jonathan Kerr...
John Alkin
James Wilby
James Wilby
Wilfred De'Ath
Tomos Eames
Tomos Eames
Iolo
Adam Garcia
Adam Garcia
Tony Windsor
Simon Callow
Simon Callow
Dickie Attenborough
James McArdle
James McArdle
Toby
Trevor White
Trevor White
Garner Ted Armstrong
Uriel Emil Pollack
Uriel Emil Po...
Nikolai
Andrew Greenough
Andrew Greeno...
Michael Winner
Alex MacQueen
Alex MacQueen
TV Director
Stefano Braschi
Stefano Brasc...
Pepe
James Floyd
James Floyd
Freddie Mercury
Deirdre Mullins
Deirdre Mulli...
BBC Receptionist
Don Gallagher
Don Gallagher
BBC Senior Producer
Anabel Kutay
Anabel Kutay
Dancer
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