I worked with Stephen Fry recently and we had a real heart-to-heart. I asked: “What was it like being in prison for being gay?” And thank God someone came in and he didn’t hear me say it. I was mixing him up with when he played Oscar Wilde. I could picture him in his cell.
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Lucy Beaumont
b. 1983
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Born in Cornwall and raised in Hull, Lucy Beaumont, 41, studied at Hull University. Having won the BBC’s 2012 New Comedy award, she went on to write and star in three series of BBC Radio 4’s To Hull and Back with Maureen Lipman. From 2020, she made five series of the TV sitcom Meet the Richardsons with Jon Richardson, from whom she is now separated. Her other work includes Hullraisers and Taskmaster, the podcast Perfect Brains and a memoir. She is touring the UK with her latest standup show, Lucy Beaumont Live. She has a child with Richardson, and lives in South Yorkshire.
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Some man in the street stopped me and said: “If you were a few inches taller you’d be dangerous.” I’ve no idea what he meant.
That money doesn’t buy happiness.
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