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BBCThe singer Robbie Williams has revealed he cried “pleased, childlike tears” after making the profitable bid for comedy legend Eric Morecambe’s glasses and pipe at public sale.
A lifetime of showbiz memorabilia and private gadgets from the comic’s former house, Brachefield in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, have been bought in January.
The imitation tortoiseshell Metzler glasses and pipe went for much in extra of their £2,000 to £4,000 estimate – fetching £20,000.
In a publish on social media, Williams stated he handled himself to the gadgets forward of his 51st birthday.
Tony Dolce/BBC“I assume all of us want friends-we-never-meet from off the telly. Eric has at all times been mine. An uncle of types,” he stated within the publish.
Williams, who has spent latest months publicising his new semi-autobiographical movie Higher Man, stated he appointed certainly one of his group to be “chief bidder”, as he was in Los Angeles and about to board an aeroplane when the bidding started.
He managed to look at plenty of the public sale on-line, spurred on by his spouse Ayda Discipline Williams who advised him to “maintain bidding” when he had doubts.
He admitted to crying “pleased, childlike tears” when he received the bidding battle.
Williams continued: “Eric, you have been and are the perfect of the perfect.
“That sunshine you requested for, you gave to me.”
PA MediaMorecambe met comedy accomplice Ernie Sensible in 1940, aged 14, and regardless of a wartime separation shaped an everlasting double-act.
They’d many lean years touring theatres earlier than they broke into TV, showing on each ITV and the BBC, and by 1977 their Christmas BBC particular was watched by 28 million viewers, at a time when there have been solely three channels within the UK.
The comic died of a coronary heart assault aged 58 in 1984 and his household house’s contents have been put up on the market after his widow, Joan, died aged 97, in March.
Their daughter Gail Stuart, who lives in Northamptonshire, stated she and her brothers Gary and Steven determined to offer followers the chance to personal a few of his belongings, greater than 800 of which went beneath the hammer.
Talking to BBC Three Counties Radio’s Justin Dealey after the public sale, she stated: “When mum died, it felt like an finish of an period and we determined it may very well be the beginning of a brand new period – and I’ve had so many followers message me with what they’d bought at public sale and it is simply fabulous.”
