Nothing like this dame - but don’t call him a drag artist
HE may be the UK’s longest-serving dame but he hates the word “drag”. Berwick Kaler, who has entertained countless audiences for more than three decades, says he is not keen on make-up either.
But it is a point he could not quite get over to former BBC and ITV chairman Michael Grade, while they were making a new documentary Michael Grade’s History of the Pantomime Dame, which is on the TV tonight.
He said: “I said to him you don’t need make-up - he was getting into one of my frocks - and what does he start doing he puts on make-up, he looks hideous. It’s not panto, it’s female impersonation.
“He is never going to get a laugh on stage by doing that.
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