Doddyfalarious!

I’d been in Russia when the media frenzy started over here. I’d neither seen nor heard any British news for days.

Imagine my surprise when, on my return, I spotted a British tabloid at St Petersburg airport. Princess Diana was snapped on the arm of Doddy! How could that be, I thought. How could she possibly fall for Doddy?

Ken Dodd, the late, great Doddy, guardian of ‘Doddy’s Dotty Diddymen who come from Knotty Ash’. The utterly daft funny man with his tickling stick! Why he was old enough to be her grandfather!

I’d never heard of Mr Fayed Junior!