It’s always a danger, when reporting celebrity deaths, that you can get two much loved national treasures mixed up in the rush to get the news out there.
That’s what happened today when, reporting on the sad loss of broadcaster, poet, raconteur, author and all-round brainbox Clive James, Sky’s Sarah-Jane Mee said that she recalled, “the Bee Gees storming off his chat show.”
That famous falling-out was, of course, on the Clive Anderson show.
Tiring of the lawyer-turned chat show host's playful banter, and tired of the group being called "tossers", lead Bee Gee Barry Gibb declared "we're getting on like a storm aren't we Clive? In fact, I might just leave” and walked off the set.
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Clive James dead: Legendary broadcaster and author dies aged 80
After a brief, embarrassing pause, his brothers Maurice and Barry followed in his footsteps.
It's an easy mistake to make. Both Clives were bald, brainy, and on the telly. But, of course, Clive Anderson is alive.
Clive James was for a long time the TV reviewer of the Observer, creating a new and irreverent style for telly critics everywhere. He developed his hugely popular columns into a set of books and, eventually, a TV series of his own called Clive James on Television.
Known for his great sense of humour, he would undoubtedly have seen the funny side of the Sky facepalm incident.
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Other showbiz luminaries actually do remember Clive, and Twitter was full this afternoon of fond memories of the broadcaster’s broadcaster.
Actor and director Samuel West said: “We were lucky to have him for so long after his diagnosis. We were lucky to have him at all. RIP Clive James".
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Former Communard and now Reverend Richard Coles said: “Woe, Clive James has also died, the best telly critic that ever there was, who once described Barbara Cartland’s face as looking like two crows that had crashed into the white cliffs of Dover.”
GMTV host and BGT judge Piers Morgan simply said: “RIP Clive James, 80. A brilliantly funny man.”
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