It's been nearly 30 years since Paul O'Grady came face to face with "the real" Lily Savage.
Today, tributes have been flooding in following the news Merseyside legend Paul O'Grady has died aged 67. The comedian and TV personality had audiences in stitches for more than three decades and first rose to prominence as his drag queen persona Lily Savage in the 1980s and 1990s, before going on to host a string of television programmes,
But back in 1994, Paul O'Grady, from Birkenhead, met the "real" Lily Savage - a great-grandmother living in Port Sunlight. At the time, BBC researcher Janet McKenna tracked down the 81-year-old down while working on new BBC2 series Life Swap, but the episode is said to have not aired.
