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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Barry, the book & Becs again - 9 Apr 15

Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.3808 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2015

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Just for the podcasters - a little bit extra from the acerbic wit of London's longest-serving talkshow host!

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0:00.0

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0:30.1

This is a download from LBC. Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

0:37.3

Morning, everybody. Welcome along to your free podcast for today.

0:40.5

It's Thursday. It's historic day because there's a roundtable with Ian Dale and four women talking about the forthcoming election.

0:49.9

And that you can discuss later on LBC with Ian Collins.

0:53.9

Barry Manilow gave us the shock news this morning.

0:57.5

Well, I say he gave us the shock news.

0:59.5

We told you the shock news.

1:01.7

I'm not sure whether or not he's actually going to make a comment on it.

1:04.5

He's married his long-term manager, Gary Keefe, in a surprise wedding.

1:09.7

He's never, ever, as far as I know, talked about his sexuality.

1:14.6

I think people just assumed that Barry was gay. I don't think it makes any difference whatsoever.

1:19.6

The only reason that I mention it is because they've been together for donkeys years. I mean, really, really donkeys years. Only a small group of people

1:29.9

were told that they were attending a luncheon and they have been committed for a very long time.

1:35.3

They look great together. Barry, sometimes it does look a little bit caught in a wind tunnel.

1:41.2

Barry is 71. Gary is 66. They reckon they've been together more than 30 years. Now, I don't care what anybody says. I know that, you know, when various other people came out over the past, you know, I suppose going back about 10 years, people came out and people were sort of going, oh, it's terrible, it's all the rest of it. I think in Barry Manilow's case, nobody really bothers. In fact, if he turned up in, in Las Vegas, on stage and his

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