Paul O’Grady
(Picture: Dave Benett/Getty Images)HE was an unmistakeable voice of BBC Radio 2 for 14 years, but now Paul O’Grady doesn’t have a good word to say about the station and feels sorry for its new hires. “God help who’s going in,” he told The Londoner. “We were all paid a pittance!”
O’Grady, who found fame as drag queen Lily Savage before becoming a household name, left the BBC last month after he was forced to split his presenting slot with comedian Rob Beckett. His departure was part of a wider withdrawal of station veterans, including Steve Wright, who has given up his weekday afternoon slot, and Vanessa Feltz, who has left the station. “I think it might be something to do with money,” O’Grady told us at the opening night of Horse-Play at the Riverside Studios.
