This Scottish producer’s life was immortalised in the 2013 crowdfunded film, The Last Impresario. Jewish and educated at the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz, White moved from being a Wall Street runner in the 1950s to the pinnacles of showbusiness in the 1960s and 1970s. Known for working on projects as diverse as Monty Python, The Rocky Horror Show, Enigma and White Mischief, this legendary playboy “can’t think about one good thing about growing old” and considers beautiful women to be “like living pictures”. White’s “Icarus-like downfall” into drugs and excess are well documented but, as he’d no doubt say himself, “the party must go on”.
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Wayne Bryson
This Lincolnshire lout will only ever be known for filming himself having sex with his ex-girlfriend Amber Hicking’s Staffordshire bull terrier. He was handed a four month jail sentence suspended for two years, placed on the sex offenders’ register for seven years and banned from owning animals for two years in March 2014. The dog […]
Russell Brand
Banned from South Africa and known for his “notoroious drug use, alcoholism and promiscuity”, this comedian is nothing but controversial. Brand has more followers than Stephen Fry on Twitter and signed a £1.8 million book deal with HarperCollins in 2008. He describes himself as being like an “S&M Willy Wonka”.
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Listen to his Desert Island Discs on iPlayer at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/17cad9ad He is a fascinating man.
Chalky was rumoured to have been a exhibitionist by heart. The repetitive exposing of one’s genitals to strangers for the purpose of achieving sexual excitement, although it was unproven rumours it was definitely reflected in his work. His most famous project was the risqué West End stage production O! Calcutta! in 1970. He is a weirdo, and in a way fascinating.
What enormous glasses……
He should get Iris Apfel to make him a pair.