The transvestite poster boy for the dumbing down of the BBC

Nigel Barrett

Actor Nigel Barrett dressed as the Queen to help out at the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. What happened next with a wet producer, Tess Daly and Have I Got News for You was not what he expected…

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