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Inside Paul O’Grady’s relationship with late partner Brendan Murphy: ‘Proper punch-ups’, nursing him through brain cancer and ‘worst six weeks of my life’

Paul O'Grady lost his late partner, Brendan Murphy, to cancer back in 2005. They'd been together for 25 years.

Paul O’Grady – who is the subject of The Life and Death of Lily Savage tonight (Friday, March 29) – has been open in the past about his relationship with his late partner Brendan Murphy. “I’d lost my best mate, someone who’d been in my life for 25 years and saw me through the days when I was lucky to earn £50 for standing on a beer crate in the corner of a pub telling jokes. The TV star cared for Brendan amid his cancer battle (Credit: Channel 4) Paul then continued at the time, saying: “Nothing could have prepared me for what was to come.

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