Comedy legend Sir Ken Dodd’s widow is being haunted by the funnyman’s ghost.
Lady Anne Dodd said that Ken’s spirit is ‘all around’ their home in Knotty Ash, a suburb of Liverpool, where Ken lived his entire life.
The legend – known as Doddy – lived in Oak House, a listed Georgian farmhouse, since he was born in November 1927 – and died there at the age of 90 in 2018.
Lady Anne, 81, who had been Ken’s partner for more than 40 years, married him just two days before his death, inheriting his £28m fortune.
Speaking yesterday (Thurs), Anne said she always leaves one light on at night, shining on a portrait of the wild-haired master of the tickling stick and leader of the Diddy Men, who was knighted in 2017.
She said: “I always say ‘goodnight’ to the picture.”
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Anne said Ken’s presence ‘remains everywhere’ in the house – where his family lived for generations – saying she believes the house is ‘haunted’ by her hubby, dubbed the Squire of Knotty Ash.
She said: “The weirdest thing is a door…every so often it closes, and we have all heard it.
“You think ‘For goodness’ sake, it’s just air (or) someone has opened another door’, but it’s not…he’s around!”
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Lady Anne said she also often dreamed of her husband and begs him not to leave.
She said: “Often I dream about him, but it’s so real I say ‘Please don’t go away!”
Sir Ken was known for his super-long live shows, often going on for five hours or more and always aiming at getting ‘seven titters per minute’ from the audience.
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In the 1960s he got into The Guinness Book of Records for the world’s longest-ever joke-telling session after cracking 1,500 jokes in three-and-a-half hours at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool.
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