Les Dennis

So, you know, you just keep plodding away.

And then I got into the Russ Abbott Madhouse.

And that was my break, really.

I met Dustin Gee, my former partner, who sadly died far too early at 43.

He died at 43.

We were.

We were absolutely storming it.

We had our own two TV shows, one on ITV and one on BBC.

We did the Royal Variety and all those big shows, and we had Summer Seasons in Blackpool, and it was really...

kind of firing for us.

They were calling us the new two Ronnies and the new Morecambe and Wise, but we lost him too early.

Oh, yeah, absolutely really hard.

I mean, he collapsed in the dressing room while we were in performance in Panto in Southport.

and died in the hospital two days later.

And, you know, it was the rug had been swept from under me and I didn't know what to do.

I was back to being a solo act again.

I went on performing, yeah.

Yeah, I did.

In my book, I reflected on the fact that I don't know, you know, I was persuaded by producers that the show must go on.

You know, in fact, I called my autobiography, Must the Show Go On?