Terrence Higgins Trust - 2023, Live Auction

06 MARCH 2023
Christie's London, King's Street. Live Streamed Auction
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13. Kenny Everett

Giant Hands

Note: These working hands are nearly 40 years old with many years’ television experience so please expect a few bumps.

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£400 - 500
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Terrence Higgins Trust - 2023, Live Auction (13/13)

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From a lost corner at the television company Mammoth Screen’s Fitzrovia studios to Christie’s is a journey that these iconic 1980s hands never expected to take, but we promised you one-of-a-kind pieces in this year’s Auction. Comedy legend Kenny Everett had a chequered history, being instrumental in getting Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ released as a single as a DJ for Capital Radio. Later he was a vocal supporter of Margaret Thatcher, but as a closeted gay man, he faced criticism for supporting a Conservative government that enacted Section 28. Everett was later diagnosed with HIV and died of AIDS-related illness in 1995. 

Wearing the enormously oversized foam rubber hands familiar from his mock-evangelical character Brother Lee Love on BBC’s The Kenny Everett Television Show became one of Everett’s lasting comedic moments Raise your hands and bid for a bit of 80s television history!

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