Paul Chuckle is being haunted by his late brother Barry who is “still hanging around” six years after his death.
The duo enjoyed a career spanning decades on stage and screen thanks to hit kids’ show ChuckleVision. But Paul, 76, said they are still a double act – because Barry is still by his side.
He revealed: “After six years, he’s still hanging around. He’s obviously sorely missed by everybody and what I miss most is working with him. We were brothers, yeah, but we were also colleagues on stage, on TV, on screen.
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“I still feel he’s with me all the time. You know, I sort of can talk to him. Before he passed away, he was very rarely in any dreams, you know, dreams of yourself doing stuff. But from the day he died, he’s almost every single night is in the dreams with me. Whatever I’m doing, Barry is with me, you know? I feel he is there all the time.”
Paul – real name Paul Elliott – has spoken of the ghost of Barry appearing on stage four months after he died in 2018 aged 73 after battling cancer. He said: “The first appearance in panto on my own was a very strange feeling. I’d obviously never walked out on stage on my own, it was always behind Barry.
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“In pantomime, we would just enter from either side of the stage and give a thumbs up to each other before the music started playing for us. But this was the first time ever, I look across and Barry wasn’t there. I was about to walk on stage on my own for the first time.
“And I swear to this day, I saw a figure of him giving me the thumbs up at the other side, which picked me right up and I walked out on stage. And then the audience picked me up with a great big cheer, which was wonderful. I felt Barry was with me and I worked just as well as I ever did. And they loved what I did.”
Barry’s funeral took place at Rotherham United’s New York Stadium because he was a big fan of the football club and Paul revealed plans for his own.
He told the Secure The Insecure podcast: “When I go, I want everybody dressed up as they’re going out for the night and have the funeral in a nightclub, with the DJ wearing a mask of me so I’m up there doing one of my sets.
“And let people enjoy the day and talk about me in a nice way, hopefully.”
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