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From Birds of a Feather's camel in Milton Keynes to Leslie Ash's turkey fire drama... The Christmas TV secrets they didn't want you to know
A Christmas TV special is as much a staple of the Big Day as The Queen's - and, latterly, The King's - Speech.
Counting down the top 30 moments from Christmas specials, the Channel 5 show spills the beans on many unforgettable episodes, including a Birds Of A Feather set-piece in which snooty and highly sexed neighbour Dorien Green straddles a camel. But actress Sheree Murphy, who played one of the muggers, didn't see Lyndhurst in fancy dress, because the show's producers were so fearful that their set-piece would become public knowledge beforehand, that they filmed Del Boy and Rodney running down the road separately from the mugging. Two of the hoi polloi onboard are revealed to be Hyacinth's frightfully common sister Daisy (Judy Cornwell) and her slobbish husband Onslow (the late Geoffrey Hughes), yet the more rarefied passenger they encounter, Lord Lichfield, wasn't in the original script – the real-life aristocratic photographer happened to be on board the ship during filming.
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