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Kenny Everett (25 December 1944 – 4 April 1995) was an English comedian, radio DJ and television entertainer. Born Maurice James Christopher Cole, Everett is best known for his career as a radio DJ and for the Kenny Everett television shows. Everett attended the local secondary modern school, St Bede's Secondary Modern, which is now part of Sacred Heart Catholic College. He attended a junior seminary at Stillington near York with an Italian missionary order, the Verona Fathers, where he was a choirboy. After schooling he worked in a bakery and in the advertising department of The Journal... MORE

Kenny Everett (25 December 1944 – 4 April 1995) was an English comedian, radio DJ and television entertainer. Born Maurice James Christopher Cole, Everett is best known for his career as a radio DJ and for the Kenny Everett television shows. Everett attended the local secondary modern school, St Bede's Secondary Modern, which is now part of Sacred Heart Catholic College. He attended a junior seminary at Stillington near York with an Italian missionary order, the Verona Fathers, where he was a choirboy. After schooling he worked in a bakery and in the advertising department of The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph. Having revealed a natural comic and broadcasting talent, he began a career in entertainment. He adopted his stage name from film-star Edward Everett Horton, a childhood hero. Everett's first break (as Maurice Cole) came when he sent a tape to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1962. He was interviewed at the BBC by Charles Fletcher and offered a job as a presenter on the Light Programme, the forerunner to BBC Radio 2. He declined, however, in favour of the less constrained world of pirate radio, where he began his career as a DJ for Radio London. He LESS