A rainbow plaque has been unveiled at a block of flats in south London to commemorate the life and legacy of the entertainer and TV presenter Paul O’Grady.<\/p>\n
The former drag queen and comedian who died in 2023 lived at Victoria Mansions in Vauxhall between 1985 and 1995.<\/p>\n
His widower Andr\u00e9 Portasio unveiled the plaque in front of dozens of friends, family and fans on Friday 21 June.<\/p>\n
He said: “I’m so chuffed that he’s been remembered at a grassroots level. He made friends for life here and was part of a community.”<\/p>\n
O’Grady’s best friend for over 50 years Alan Ralph, better known as “Vera”, also lived at “Vicky” Mansions and remembers the good times he had there with the star.<\/p>\n
“It was a tiny flat. It was like something you’d never seen before. He had all these knick-knacks everywhere including an old gramophone.<\/p>\n
“Paul had all these cupboards made in the kitchen and all his drag gear was hanging out of them everywhere.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rainbow plaque has been unveiled at a block of flats in south London to commemorate the life…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-658919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}