I used to watch him on Give Us A Clue.
He was very over-the-top and flamboyant but think that was his personality better than being miserable and grouchy. Think its entertainers of that generation.
I recall an interview or something where someone asked him about “being the butt of jokes” from the BBC programme Radio 4’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue think he said something like it was water off a ducks back but that he minded more for his wife and family saying the jokes were at times plainly mean
Do you know what no idea why I recall any of that a bit I suppose like the “attack on” Andrew Sachs by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross with the prank call both events were very nasty and small minded in my opinion I never listen to Radio 4 but turn of Brand and Ross and anything to do with them.