Johnny Beattie was an outstanding comic performer but more than that, he was a lovely, lovely man. I did several pantomimes with Johnny when he was a Dame and I was daft Wullie.
It was round about 1983/84 that we did the first panto and we did about five or six together, one in the Gaiety in Ayr and others in the Pavilion in Glasgow.
We had such a great relationship it got to the stage he’d sign a Christmas card as ‘mammy‘ and I’d send him one signing it as from his ‘son’.We had his 93rd birthday recently before Covid-19 and twelve of us went out together to a restaurant in GlasgowIt was a great day and I sat next to him.
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