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Dear David Jason, might you be my biological father? As a young actor, the Only Fools And Horses legend had a fling with a co-star. Here, he reveals how an astonishing letter changed his life
There's a photograph somewhere of the cast of a 1970s production of Under Milk Wood, at the Mermaid Theatre in London. I'm there, with my thumbs in my belt loops and wearing a cravat.
Also in the cast was Ruth Madoc, later famed for playing Gladys Pugh in Hi-De-Hi!, and Windsor Davies, the actor known for his role as the bawling sergeant major in It Ain't Half Hot Mum. And so the magnificent architecture of the abbey reverberated to Ronnie sonorously enunciating the parable of the man whose trouble and strife has run off with a tea leaf and who thus finds himself living with his eldest bricks and mortar, but is short of bees and honey, so is struggling to pay the Burton-on-Trent...* *Just in case a glossary might be of service: trouble and strife = wife, tea leaf = thief, bricks and mortar = daughter, bees and honey = money, Burton-on-Trent = rent.
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