Sir Billy Connolly has revealed his first nickname – and it’s about as far removed from The Big Yin as you can get.Branded Cuddles by an irate teacher in his Glasgow primary school, he said he was terrified the moniker might never leave him.In a new documentary, the comedian has talked more about his tough upbringing in the city’s Partick and the bizarre name that could have ended his stand-up career before it even started.He said: “I had the worst nickname in the world when I was at school.
It lasted about a year but it mercifully went away.Someone had this printed-up thing called Cupid’s Cuddling Circle, which read, ‘This certificate entitles you to a cuddle from such and such and so on.’ It was passed round the class and someone passed
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