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Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. Well, it's time to dig out the denim. Plug

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in the air guitar and loosen up the shoulders to get down, down with

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tonight's guests. # Down, down deeper and down

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# Get down, deeper and down... # They've been rocking all over the

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world for 50 years. Please, welcome Status Quo, and Rick Parfitt and

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Francis Rossi. APPLAUSE

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Lads, it's like you were saying, that was almost ten years ago.

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natural audience there. A good ten years ago 12 years. I would never

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know. We are so excited to have you here. Matt has been singing your

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songs all day. More excited than anybody else is glory Hunniford. --

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Gloria Hunniford. A little bird told us that maybe Gloria had a thing for

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you Francis? We had a few moments. Gloria, it won't be long. You'll be

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on the sofa very shortly. panting! ! We will also find out why

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Status Quo have gone all Fijian on us. Can't wait to find out all about

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it. That looks lovely. It's us to. It is. Have you ever heard of a

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Phoenix company? Yeah.Good. Well, for you at home, here is Gloria to

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explain all and how any one of us could lose money through no fault of

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our own. Nearly two years ago, Colin paid �11,500 for this - his family's

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second-hand motor home, but the very first time he took it away the

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problems began. Now you've got your dream motor home. A great reason for

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you to spend holidays with your family. What went wrong? The first

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hieple we used it we noticed that as the British weather goes, we had a

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little bit of rain and my daughter was actually sleeping in the above

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and it's over the window as you can see. She complained that it was a

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little damp. We'll go inside and look at the damage and everything.

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Right. It turned out to be much more than just damp. Actually, there was

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water in the light fixtures. So, Colin took the leaking motor home

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back to the original seller. They were Rivershore Limited. They agreed

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to fix it free of charge, but the next time they used it the water

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came through yet again. I was assured that the leak had been

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detected and that it had been repaired, it had been tested as

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well. Because the company's repair job hadn't actually fixed the

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problem, Colin was keen to get a second opinion from a different

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caravan firm. But their assessment was worse than he feared. It

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complied a detailed report, which described the caravan as maybe

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unsafe to use and worse of all, that the total repairs could cost Colin

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over �4,500,000. According to Colin, river shoe disagreed with the report

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and said that the problems were to be expected for an ageing motor

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home. Colin felt he had no choice but to pursue Rivershore in the

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Small Claims Court. But then something really unexpected

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happened. Because, the very day before he was due in court his

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solicitor had a call from an insolvency company to say Rivershore

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had gone into liquidation. This meant that Colin had little or no

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chance of getting his money back. To add insult to injury, very soon

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after Colin discovered that the firm was seemingly trading again, but

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this time under a different name - calling themselves Craig's caravans.

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As far as Colin is concerned, everything but the name was exactly

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the same. I believe it's just changed the name. It's the same

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company. It's the same premises. The phone was still the same. Everything

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looked exactly the same as I remember it the last time I was

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here. It's just absolutely unbelievable that people are allowed

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to do this so easily. So, how is it that a company can cease trading one

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day, leaving Colin in the lurk and seemingly just start trading again

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with little or no responsibility to previous customers? Craig's Caravans

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could be what is known as a Phoenix company. Typically assets are sold

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from a failing firm to a new one. The new company may operate from the

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same address, with the same directors. Now, this arrangement is

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perfectly legal and allows the profitable elements of the failed

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business to survive, offering some continuity to both suppliers and

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employees. However, it's absolutely infuriating for people who believe

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they've been left out of pocket, so because often the pot of assets that

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is left is so small that there's nothing for the creditors to claim

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back on. Carrying out the liquidation process is the

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insolvency agent. They take charge of the company and it's their job to

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settle any legal disputes, sell off the company's assets using any money

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to pay creditors. They are also responsible for investigating why

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the business has failed. It's quite common, particularly for

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entrepreneurs in this country to try something and if it doesn't succeed,

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to then try again. In many respects that is something to be encouraged.

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In this case, is it worthwhile Colin getting in touch with the insolvency

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company? Colin should definitely get in touch with the practioner who is

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handling that case to set out his claim and to see if there is any

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kind of remedy that the liquidator is considering. It may help bring

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more money back into the pot for Colin to share. The One Show did ask

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to speak to Craig's Caravans, but they declined to be interviewed.

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With rivershore ceasing to exist as a company, the courts will never get

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a chance to decide whether or not Colin would have won his case. In

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any event, Colin is now stuck with a motor home he can't use and can't

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afford to repair. Well, Gloria is here. You said there

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in the film that Craig's Caravans didn't want to mention anything in

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an interview. Have they said anything at all? Nothing. In actual

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fact, I feel so sorry for Colin, because he's ill and he has put all

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his money from a pension into the home and he took it back originally

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when it was the original company and they allegedly fixed it, but the

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next time he took it out, bad as ever. Now, he has an independent

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report, but it's just a shrugging of the shoulders. The day before he was

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due to go to the court the company shut down and re-opened. As an

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individual, this is my opinion, I find it incredible that a company

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can go bust one day and re-open the next with the same directors in some

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cases, and I'm generalising and I'm not talking about this company, same

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produce and products and directors in the same spot, but it's legal.

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And just taking the best bits. legal. Providing the insolvency

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company, which by the way is booked by the company in question, but

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actually the onus is on the public. They are due to take the public's

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interest into account, providing they've done the search that there

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hadn't been unsuccessary asset stripping or fraud, it is perfectly

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legal to open up again the next day, which I think to the individual just

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seems incredible. Colin's situation, it's terrible, isn't it, but how can

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we then as individuals protect ourselves from this type of thing

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happening? Well, for example, if you were going to perfect something else

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and the most logical thing, although it's tricky in a way, you have to be

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arduous, you can go to companies house and get details on any limited

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company, so you can check that out and you can check out the credit

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rating through Status and you should check out directors to make sure

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that they have haven't been -- they haven't been involved. They call it

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Phoenix companies, because they rise from the ashes, as one dies the

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other rises up. You have to do a lot of homework to make sure you're

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trading with a legit company. thought if you were bankrupt you

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weren't allowed to have a bank account. That might be individual,

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but in this case you are dealing with a limited company. The people

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are supposed to check out this stuff out when you think the system's got

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it all done already? What happens in any of these cases, and I use Colin

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as an example, it's the small person that suffers. The company goes bust

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through a legitimate insolvency agency, you know, employed by the

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company, but working on our behalf allegedly, but what they would say

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now for Colin and this would apply to anybody, is that you should never

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give up on it, because you have got a few after news. You should lodge

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your complaint with the insolvency company that is acting in this case

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for the motor home company. You should also go to the Financial

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Services Authority, or to the Financial Ombudsman to fight your

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case, but as in any of these schemes, I'm not saying this is

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necessary a rip-off, but we call it such, you have to have tenacity and

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you have to keep at it. What about the money? If you are working,

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because it costs people money? does. Colin, who can't work at the

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moment because of dealing with his cancer, he has taken �11,500 out of

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the pension to buy a motor home and yet he's the one now who is out of

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bobbinget. We wish Colin all the best. We'll put a lot of links on

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the website. -- pocket. We wish Colin all the best. We'll put a lot

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of the links on the website. Now, the new film Behind the Candelabra

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celebrates Liberace's life and today it's no secret that he was gay.

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Incredibly back in 1956, when a newspaper columnist called him

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fruit-flavoured it resulted in a nasty court case. In showbiz an

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artist's reputation is paramount. There are many who have gone to

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court to protect it. But perhaps the biggest libel case of all dates from

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1959, when the world's highest-paid entertainer, Liberace, sued the

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country's highest-selling newspaper the Daily Mirror. Liberace began his

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career in the late 1930s. A flamboyant showman busting with

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music flare with his flirty wink he charmed the world and found knee

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kneeal popularity, especially among women. -- phenomenal popularity,

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especially among women. Now a new film tells a different story, about

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one of his many love affairs with a man. I love to give people a good

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time. On the platform at Southampton are one or two music lovers.

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1956, Liberace toured the UK, but some traditional British voices

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disapproved of the American's camp razzamataz. And dropped a heavy hint

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that British women were waisting their -- wasting their time trying

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to catch his eye. Do you like my gold jacket? I'm glad, because you

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bought it. He was the summit of sex and the pinnical of masculine and

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feple mine neuter. This fruit-flavoured mincing help of

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mother love, he's the biggest sentimental vomit of all time. This

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is what William Connor, also known as Cassandra, wrote in his famed

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column in the Daily Mirror. The article Liberace was hoax sexual --

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homosexual. It was illegal in the United Kingdom then, so Liberace

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sued for libel. Why did he choose to go to town about Liberace? I don't

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think anyone can be certain about why he alighted on that. It provided

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him with a wonderful piece of propose. It's very, very nasty, but

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it's also, if you rise above it, very funny and clever. Most of the

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time, he had his finger on the popular pulse and he had a big

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streak, but he also had the deeply, dark conservative streak, what we

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would now call homophobia and he thought, "Here's a popular figure

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and isle take him apart." He misread the audience and most importantly

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the determination of Liberace himself. This QC has studied the

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case. Liberace was in character in court. He was asked some interesting

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questions by the barrister, and right in the middle he was talking

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about being fruit-flavoured and it well known that fruit in America

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meant gay and the key question in the case must have been why did you

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use the word if you didn't mean to say he was a homosexual. Are you a

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homosexual? No, sir. He was asked if he had indulged in homosexual in

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actions. He replied no. After seven days of trial, the jury decided that

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the article did indeed impune Liberace's sexuality. He was awarded

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a report �8,000 in damages, plus costs an eye-watering �500,000 in

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today's money. The case was a libel landmark and the aftermath for those

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involved was difficult to deal with. Bill was showbiz editor of the Daily

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Mirror and met Liberace. Bill Connor was winded by the experience?

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psychologically damaged. You rather fefle that Liberace was somebody --

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felt that Liberace was somebody who lied in court and the lie actually

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damaged the life of a journalist, who actually was telling the truth?

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Yes, absolutely. After all, he was a purgerer and he lied constantly

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through his life to protect himself that it was totally untrue. In a

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case based on money and lies, maybe truth was the biggest victim.

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Although, the Mirror had to pay up, the circulation didn't go down and

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eventually Cassandra was knighted axT as for Liberace, well, famously

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he cried all the way to the bank. -- and as for Liberace, well, famously

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he cried all the way to the bank. We are joined by a man who knew

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Liberace well, his publicist, John Rimmington. Why did you first start

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working with Liberace and secondly, John, where did you get the suits?

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Well, he gave me that as a gift for a wedding present. It was made by

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his costume lady and she gave my through him, as a gift, she gave my

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wife a fur coat. Fair enough.I started in 1972. Up until 1986.

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you still wear it? No, I sold it. Why ever not? I sold it to a music

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master at Eton college. Rick, you were saying that your mother was a

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big fan of Liberace? She was. We used to have the Liberace Show on

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every Sunday afternoon about 4.00pm. I was only a small boy, but I

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remember watching it on the black and white and she used to see him

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regularly at the pal laidium and I think he was the first person to

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come to this country with the waterfall, the coloured dancing

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water on stage. Fantastic.My mum saw it. She was soaked! John, I'm

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guessing that you knew that Liberace was gay then? Was it difficult for

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you over that period of time to keep it covered up? I had my suspicions.

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Yes, it was difficult. I think mainly because he feared and in

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those days correctly, that if he either openly came out or it was

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suggested in the media that he was gay, it would ruin his career.

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Didn't he go to massive lengths to try to stop it coming out? Yes.

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had a sort of pretend girlfriend didn't he? Debbie, yeah. That is

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true. There she is. He introduced her mid-way through one of the Vegas

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performances as the girl I'm mad about. He admitted later to me that

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she was very feple minute and she would make a wonderful wife and --

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feminine and she would make a wonderful wife. As it so happened,

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my story went to the British press first of course and it sparked off

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rumours that he was going to get married. That wasn't the case.

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got married and did you honeymoon in his house? He loaned us his house in

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Hollywood. My wife, Joyce and I spent a week there in the company...

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It's just like home. It looks quite plush. Is it - Just a little bit.

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Was it quite nice or a bit Gaudi? called it the Buckingham Palace of

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Beverly Hills and I'm sure the Queen has better taste. I would hope so.

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We'll leave it there. Diplomatic. Thank you, John. John's book,

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Liberace is nought now. As well as the Liberace film, the other music

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epic of this summer, you know where we are going, features Status Quo

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and it's called Bula Bula Quo. We'll look at this. What does it mean?

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# It's been a long, long time, since I felt so fine

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# Is it always here when I'm sane # You can ask me how and I know

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right now # Here I am on stage... #

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Come on, what does it mean? Hello. They say Bula in Fiji. You have to

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be very careful with it. It's a load of Bula. Are you making a film or

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you were out in Fiji to make the film and where did it come from?

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When we did Coronation Street many years ago the stunt co-ordinator,

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Stewart St Paul taught us to beat Les up and so we wanted to make a

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movie. It first came along and it was -- Wasn't it a Bruce Lee movie?

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More violent. It was going to be shot in Bangkok. I loved the idea.

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We didn't, so we waited for the new script and it did and it was a

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modicum of humour and shooting it in Fiji, so we went off. We do it a

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lot, this silly humour and it appeals to young people. I mean

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young people. Are you singing a lot in the movie? We have written, nine,

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ten, 11 songs for the album song track. There's quite a bit of

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singing, but it's more of a chase, I guess. Yeah, we being chased by

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Wilson. He's a baddie. Actually, when you see John on the screen he's

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mesmerising. We were both taken with him. He did one of those on shot

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when he shouldn't. It's a caper. What happened to your hair, Rick? It

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has grown back. I had a bit of a rash on my skin a couple of years

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ago and I went to the doctor and he told me to steak the steroids. I

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took them and my skin was beautiful, but all my hair fell off. Literally,

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just as I was starting the movie, I was combing my hair. It started

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growing again. Did they put it into the storyline? No, not at all. As

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the movie was going on, my hair got shorter and shorter and by the end I

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didn't have any hair. It is all cut short. For me, it was a frightening

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experience, because I've had long hair all my life and all of a sudden

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it's coming out by the comb-load so I'm trying to grow it back axT at my

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age, it's ridiculous. I watched it coming out day by day. Marvellous.

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Last year, it was the 50th anniversary of the band starting

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out. You all got together at Wembley. How was that for you?

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good. It was difficult, I think. But it was seeing the audience, the way

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they took it. There were people crying, whether it was that bad, I

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don't know what it was, but we were both taken with the way the audience

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were taken with seeing us four together again. People came from all

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over the world. I can't believe it. It was like Led Zeppelin and people

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were saying the same to us, it was the same sort of thing. Your music

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has been soundtracks to people's lives. There are 100 singles.

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It's weird. It just goes by. It's best not to think about it. Me and

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him never think about it. It's just people come up and give us the

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statistics. Someone said after taking a photograph and 100 singles

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and we carried on. We had no idea. You made this documentary as well to

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coincide with the 50th and you found that you had a few closet fans, one

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of them being Paul Weller, surprisingly. How did that come

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about? You remember Paul. I always thought Paul, to his credit, he was

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very much instrumental in helping the guys when they were first

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learning to play and they've held a thing that he never admitted. He put

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it right. I gave him an amp and he has never given it back to me when

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he started out. Gosh. It is incredible, because you were saying

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about your dad. He has been influential for you. Very much so. I

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started in the working men's club and I joined an association at

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holiday camps and I met Francis and we teamed up and here we are.

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at it. That's movie two. Right, on we go. It turns out we should have a

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new-found respect for this, the humble pen pencil. Marty Jopson

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explains how this could re-write the future. The familiar gadgets of

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everyday life, they get faster, slicker and slimmer. But an maizing

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new material discovered by British scientists will transform this

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technology forever. It will allow us to slim it all down, so thickness

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will be the thickness of a piece of paper. It's called graphine. It won

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a Nobel Prize for the two scientists who found it and it's been lauded as

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the miracle material of the 20th century. It's stronger than diamond

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and more conductive than copper and flexible than rubber and it's so

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thin you can barely see it with the naked eye. It's made from the stuff

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in your pencil, graphite. And graphite is millions of microscopic

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layers of tightly packed carbon. When I put my thumb into the graph

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graphite, and give it a rub around, it gets covered in a layer of it. If

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I then press that back on to the paper, millions of layers are peeled

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off. If I keep smudging my thumb across the paper the layers of

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graphite get thinner and thinner. And if I keep going eventually I'll

:25:38.:25:48.
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end up with a layer of graph ITV1 atom thin thin and at that point I

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have graphine. This doctor -- graphine one atom thin and at this

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point I have it. This Dr Works with the men who found it. It is 200

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times stronger than steel. To demonstrate the properties, Aravind

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dissolves graphite and injects is into a special printer cartridge.

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This sprays a thin layer on to a cellophane backing, which holds the

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thin layer together. What we have here then is cellophane coated with

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a layer of graphine. Are you sure? Yes. On its own cellophane cannot

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conduct electricity, but when graphine is added, something

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remarkable happens. We have an LED lamp there and as soon as you wire

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it up. It starts to glow. It means that there is current flowing

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through the piece of plastic. is so thin, there is very little

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lectical resistance, making the most conductive material ever created.

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Allowing scientists to shrink our circuit boards, leading to smaller

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phones and computers. But it has another key property flexibility.

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You can pick it up and you can bend it and you can twist it and still

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the current flows through it and the lamp stays on. It's incredible. This

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flexibility is getting electronics giants excited. Prototype an maces

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show it applied to super-thin bendy plastics, making phones and tablets

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foldable. This is really revolutionary. This will change

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things? Yeah.The thinness also means it is 97% transparent.

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Tackling a problem we face with touch-screen technology. Today's

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mobile phones contain an element called indium, to make the touch

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screens work. It is rare and becoming more expensive and the

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coating that it makes is brittle in inflexible. On the other hand, super

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bendy, conductive and transparent graphine is made from carbon which

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is abundant, but high quality is currently hard to manufacture on a

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large scale. Any imperfections in the process reduces the

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conductivity. If scientists it crack this problem it won't just be

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consumer technology that will change. Electric car batteries built

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from millions of layers of graphine will charge in minutes thanks to the

:28:35.:28:43.

high conductivity. Microscopic sensors in our body could detect

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harm harmful mie coeBs -- microbes. It may well be the biggest

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revolution since the silicone chip. It's the future. Incredible. Thank

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you. Thanks very much to Rick and Francis and Bula Bula Quo is out

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now. You can see The film on 5th July. Sir Tom Jones will be here on

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Friday and we are trying to find children of other dads called Tom

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