To most Americans (and other non Brits) 89 year old Dame Patricia Routledge is best known as the social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bucket (that’s pronounced Bouquet) in the long running hit TV sit.com Keeping Up Appearances. There is of course a lot more to this the veteran classically trained actress than that. She was a long standing member of The Royal Shakespeare Company; won a Tony Award back in 1968, and an Olivier Award in London in 1988 etc, etc.
However to British gay men in particular much beloved Dame Patricia won her gay icon status for a series of outrageously camp monologues she performed as Kitty on the Victoria Wood TV Show some 30 years ago. A lot of the cultural references may not always mean that much to non-Brits BUT you can still easily appreciate her wonderful comic genius in this example we are playing for ‘throwback thursday.
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Labels: 2018, British TV, classic, Turn Back Time
