:a newspaper story - it must be true then - LOL! - seriously, it was probably thought up by some journalist who'd never even met them. I can remember back in the 1990s when so many of the older, much-loved stars started to die-off, the number of so-called 'revelations' about them, and people such as Benny Hill, Kenny Everett, etc. it was just character assassination for a cheap read. The thing you need to remember is that people like Brambell and Hill and Everett provided more pleasure and fun in their fields of entertainment than any so-called journalist ever will, most of whom will not even be remembered in a few years time. Who remembers the shit-stirring journalists and media 'luvvies' who tried successfully to get the Benny Hill Show and similar programmes taken off TV - the only result of things like that in the long run was to dilute British television to the point where (at least for me) it's no longer watchable. So I don't watch it. And after the last ten years of almost wall-to-wall crap on the terrestrial stations, I don't even miss it - you can always find something better on YouTube.