Rolf Harris Australia Britain Scotland Entertainment BBC show stage song art musician Rolf Harris Australia Britain Scotland

Rolf Harris obituary

Reading now: 421
msn.com

arrested during Scotland Yard’s sex crime investigation Operation Yewtree, he was made an officer of the Order of Australia. “I arrived in the UK on a boat in 1952 at the age of 22, with nothing but a load of self confidence,” he wrote in his 2001 autobiography, Can You Tell What It Is Yet?“As a musician, singer and songwriter, I have had No 1 hits and taken pop festivals by storm; as a television presenter, I have been awarded the MBE and voted TV personality of the year; and as an artist I have had pictures exhibited by the Royal Academy.

People who are now parents and grandparents grew up watching me on TV singing Jake the Peg, doing vast drawings with a fat felt-tip pen, blowing the didgeridoo and wobbling a piece of hardboard.

Children today know me as the man who worries about cats with broken legs, and ferrets with flu, on the BBC’s Animal Hospital.

Touching so many people’s lives has been a huge thrill. ”The widespread fondness for Harris was summed up in a profile of the entertainer in the Independent in 1998. “He’s still, even after all these years, just so brilliantly innocent … It’s why we still hold him in such great and genuine affection.

Read more on msn.com
The website celebsbar.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA