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Adrian Edmondson played a key role in the success of Absolutely Fabulous, he reveals.<\/p>\n
He had the inspired idea of Joanna Lumley playing the iconic Patsy Stone, suggesting the actress to his wife Jennifer Saunders, who created the show.<\/p>\n
Adrian, 66, recalls: \u201cAnother actress was in the frame and at first I didn\u2019t want to say Joanna Lumley in case Jennifer thought, \u2018Oh, he\u2019s just saying that because he fancies her\u2019. But then I said, \u2018What about Joanna Lumley?\u2019 So I\u2019m claiming that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The couple have been married for almost 40 years and, for Adrian, it was love at first sight. \u201cYes, it was for me,\u201d he says. \u201cYou\u2019d have to ask Jennifer how she felt. I grew up at a boys school and never learnt to talk to women. I was always a bit on the back foot.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his moving and funny autobiography Berserker!, out this week, he talks about how the couple\u2019s love was cemented. They were friends on the alternative comedy circuit in the 80s, dating other people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But one day Jennifer left an empty Silk Cut cigarette packet under Adrian\u2019s car windscreen wiper with the words: \u201cI love you, Adrian. Love Jennifer.\u201d He still has that packet.<\/p>\n
He clearly loves being a father to their three girls \u2013 songwriter Ella, 37, actress Beattie, 36, and yoga teacher Freya, 32, and was determined not to be like his own father. \u201cMy rule has been, \u2018What would Dad do? Don\u2019t do that\u2019. Encourage them to do what they want. Don\u2019t denigrate things you don\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ade was sent to a boarding school in Yorkshire when he was 12 where caning was common. \u201cWriting the book put my childhood into perspective,\u201d he says. \u201cThere\u2019s quite a lot about violence in there. It\u2019s bizarre that we used to let that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also details his relationship on and off-screen with the late Rik Mayall, his co-star in The Young Ones and later the sitcom Bottom.<\/p>\n
[ad_1] Adrian Edmondson played a key role in the success of Absolutely Fabulous, he reveals. He had the inspired idea of Joanna Lumley playing the iconic Patsy Stone, suggesting the actress to his wife Jennifer Saunders, who created the show. Adrian, 66, recalls: \u201cAnother actress was in the frame and at first I didn\u2019t want …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1023],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}