Billy Connolly.The 57-year-old Brazilian says partying with the Big Yin wasn’t always “in the best possible taste”, to borrow the catchphrase used by an Everett character, but was always fun.The busty star, who appeared on DJ and presenter Everett’s prime-time TV show from 1981 to 1988 – usually wearing suspenders and stockings or dressed as a French maid – became close friends with Connolly during filming.Cleo said: “Billy is the loveliest man on the planet and he and Kenny had the jolliest friendship.“We would always do the show’s sketches with Billy at the end of our working day because once he started laughing in the middle of a sketch, you couldn’t stop him.“We knew if we did them in the morning, we’d miss a whole day of filming that.
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