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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: I loved my gay past, says Who legend Peter Townshend


EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Given that he's now in his 80th year, it seems safe to assume that Pete Townshend, co-founder of The Who, has accepted that that youthful ambition expired some years ago.

The Silent Witness star could be found enjoying her favourite almond ice cream with a candle stuck in it at the Michelin-starred River Cafe in Hammersmith, the borough where she was born. After quitting the Royal Marines in the 1980s, the Duke of Edinburgh was given a job by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful theatre company, where he worked as a production assistant on musicals including Starlight Express. But I fear the director, who died in 2013, would not have enjoyed its damning description on its website: 'Winner's choice to blur the film's stance on the character's trauma as justification for an incessant vengeance spree led to accusations of immorality and racism from critics...

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