Freddie Starr as seen on the cover of his 2001 autobiography Unwrapped.

The famous headline as it appeared in The Sun.

Freddie Starr (born Frederick Leslie Fowell in Huyton, Liverpool on 9 January 1943) is a zany British comedian who shot to fame after his appearance in the 1970 Royal Variety Performance. He is also a veteran impressionist and singer, with one chart album (After The Laughter) to his credit. Image File history File linksMetadata Freddiestarrunwrapped. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Freddiestarrunwrapped. ... Image File history File links Freddiehamster. ... Image File history File links Freddiehamster. ... Look up sun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Statistics Population: 54,766 (with Roby) (1992 census) Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SJ4692 Administration Metropolitan Borough: Knowsley Metropolitan county: Merseyside Region: North West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Merseyside Historic county: Lancashire Services Police force: Merseyside Police Ambulance: North West Post office and... Liverpool is a major city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. ... January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ... The Royal Variety Performance is a gala evening held in the United Kingdom once each year, usually in a theatre in Londons West End. ...

Freddie Starr is perhaps best known for his role in one of the most famous British tabloid newspaper headlines of all time. On 13 March 1986 The Sun carried as its main headline: FREDDIE STARR ATE MY HAMSTER. According to the text of the story, Starr had been staying at the home of Vince McCaffrey and his 23-year old girlfriend Lea La Salle in Birchwood, Cheshire when the incident took place. Starr was claimed to have returned home from a performance at a Manchester nightclub in the small hours of the morning and demanded that Lea La Salle make him a sandwich. When she refused, he went into the kitchen and put her pet hamster Supersonic between two slices of bread and proceeded to eat it. March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up sun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Statistics Population: 11,395 (2001) Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SJ647911 Administration District: Warrington Shire county: Cheshire Region: North West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Cheshire Historic county: Lancashire Services Police force: Cheshire Ambulance service: North West Post office and telephone Post town: Warrington... The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester)[1] is a... Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, North West England. ... Genera Mesocricetus Phodopus Cricetus Cricetulus Allocricetulus Cansumys Tscherskia A hamster is a rodent belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae. ...

Freddie Starr gives his side of the story in his 2001 autobiography Unwrapped. He says that the only time that he ever stayed at Vince McCaffrey's house was in 1979 and that the incident was a complete fabrication. Starr writes in the book: "I have never eaten or even nibbled a live hamster, gerbil, guinea pig, mouse, shrew, vole or any other small mammal." The man behind the hamster story was the British publicist Max Clifford who was awarded the PR of the year award. When asked in a television interview with Esther Rantzen some years later whether Starr really had eaten a hamster, his reply was "Of course not." Clifford was unapologetic, insisting that the story had given a huge boost to Starr's career. In May 2006 the BBC nominated "FREDDIE STARR ATE MY HAMSTER" as one of the top British newspaper headlines of all time. Genera Mesocricetus Phodopus Cricetus Cricetulus Allocricetulus Cansumys Tscherskia A hamster is a rodent belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae. ... Genera Gerbillus Microdillus Meriones Rhombomys Psammomys Sekeetamys Brachiones Desmodilliscus Pachyuromys Tatera Taterillus Desmodillus Gerbillurus Ammodillus A gerbil is a small mammal of the order Rodentia. ... Binomial name Cavia porcellus (Linnaeus, 1758) Guinea pigs (also called cavies) are rodents belonging to the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia, originally indigenous to the Andes. ... Feral mouse A mouse (plural mice) is a mammal that belongs to one of numerous species of small rodents. ... Genera Anourosorex Blarina Blarinella Chimarrogale Chodsigoa Congosorex Crocidura Cryptotis Diplomosodon Episoriculus Feroculus Megasorex Myosorex Nectogale Neomys Nesiotites Notiosorex Paracrocidura Ruwenzorisorex Scutisorex Solisorex Sorex Soriculus Suncus Surdisorex Sylvisorex Shrews are small, superficially mouse-like mammals of the family Soricidae. ... Genera Microtus Myodes Phenacomys Lagurus Arvicola A vole is a small rodent resembling a mouse but with a stouter body, a shorter hairy tail, a slightly rounder head, and smaller ears and eyes. ... Esther Louise Rantzen CBE (born June 22, 1940), is a British journalist and television presenter who is best known for her long stint in Thats Life! and her activities as founder of the charity ChildLine. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is one of the largest broadcasting corporations in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of more than £4 billion. ...

In 1994 Freddie Starr was again the subject of tabloid newspaper attention in Britain. Thousands of pounds worth of jewellery went missing from Starr's home where a man named Robin Coxhead worked as a gardener, and Coxhead was suspected of stealing it. When questioned by the police Coxhead, who was homosexual, claimed to have given oral sex to Starr over a period of five years, and that the jewellery had been given to him as a reward. The case went to court and Coxhead was discredited when he was unable to state whether Starr's penis was circumcised or uncircumcised. Coxhead was found guilty and sentenced to fifteen months in prison in 1995. Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ... Oral sex consists of all the sexual activities that involve the use of the mouth, tongue, and possibly throat to stimulate genitalia. ... This article is about male circumcision. ...

Additional information

• In 1994 he was the owner of Minnehoma, the winning horse in the Grand National race. [1]

• One of his most recent television appearances was as one of the celebrities in the second series of hit ITV1 reality show, Celebrity Fit Club, where he was made team captain, but was demoted three weeks later for not taking the role seriously.

• He now lives in Spain with his wife Donna but still performs in theatres and clubs across the UK.

• He once lived in Royal Windsor and worked in the famous Blazers Cabaret Club.

• He is a supporter of the football club Everton F.C.

• He has two daughters named Donna and Stacey and a son called Jody who are not so famous.

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