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Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

Morning everybody, welcome along to your Friday free podcast for today.

My Little Bit Extra comes to you, courtesy of me.

And as it's the 3rd of April, we don't celebrate anything on the 3rd of April,

just that we've made it to the 3rd of April.

And of course, everybody talking about Eddie Large from Little and Large.

Actually, Sid wrote to me some years ago. He was doing one of those reality shows, but it was a long, long time ago.

And I knew that the boys had fallen out. They didn't speak for about 10 years. Luckily, it's with all these things.

You know, people, if you're in a double act you can

imagine it must drive you mad it must try it's like pen and teller they don't socialize off stage at

all they come together they do the act and then even at the end they don't stand together and sign

autographs one's at one end of the room one's the other end of the room it's it's it's completely

like that because it must drive you mad you know i, I mean, I know that Pip Schofield and Holly Willoughby

go on holiday and things like that. But eventually, it will drive you mad and sort of, you get a bit of

friction. So there was, and for 10 years, they didn't really say anything to each other and then they got back together again by that time eddie had had his

heart surgery and he got 17 more years out of it i think he was just tired of touring you know to

go there and people are oh you're funny aren't you and of course if you're a comedian you're expected

to be funny all the time well of course they're not they're not but it was it was a great double act

and it worked really really well really really well well. So commiserations to the family. But as we say, time and time began, he had a good innings. But he didn't go into hospital for coronavirus. He picked up the coronavirus either while he was in there on the way in. Must have been like that. Of course, the big shock news at the age of 89, Bernie

Eccleston has become a father for the fourth time with his wife, Fabiana Flossi. Sounds like a

circus hack, doesn't it? Ladies and gentlemen, Fabiana Flossi. Come on, love, get on your unicycle, come on.

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