Who was Bob Monkhouse? Hint- Zappa, Bixby, Fogleberg and Albin’s father. The prostate cancer that kills in three years- the one i worry about


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If you twitter check out the Bob Monkhouse page- ” When I told them I was going to be a comedian, they laughed. No one is laughing now.”  Now that is good stuff!

Monkhouse was married twice, to Elizabeth Thompson on November 5, 1949 (divorced in 1972), and then to Jacqueline Harding on October 4, 1973. He had three children from his first marriage, but only his daughter Abigail survived him. His son Gary Alan, who had cerebral palsy, died in Braintree, Essex, in 1992, aged 40; this led to Monkhouse being an avid campaigner for the disabled. His other son Simon, from whom he had been estranged for almost a decade, died of a heroin overdose in a Bangkok hotel in 2001.[3][9]

In July 1995, Monkhouse appealed for the return of a ring binder that constituted one of his ‘joke books’, offering a £10,000…

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