Express.co.uk that although he was planning on carrying on with his career, Barry encouraged him to continue to pursue performing after he became seriously ill with the disease.When quizzed on if he returned to the stage to fulfil Barry’s wishes, Paul said: “I probably would have carried on anyway after he’d gone but he did say, ‘You will carry on, won’t you after I’m gone?’ “And I said, ‘Yeah, of course I will.’”Opening up about Barry’s final days, Paul continued: “I’d actually gone and done a Joe Lycett Saturday evening show, The Time It Takes, on the Wednesday.“I saw him [Barry] on the Tuesday and he was alright, he was sitting up and chatting away, obviously not normally, but he was fine and then on the Wednesday morning I’d flown up to.
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