AND FOR MY NEXT TRICK.(Features)

From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: September 30, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: By Hannah Jones Western Mail

...alcoholism, wife-beating, crippling insecurity and hypochondria. HANNAH JONES conjures up the secrets of Tommy Cooper with the help of one of his closest friends

IT is hard to reconcile the bumbling, fumbling, loveable public face of Tommy Cooper with an altogether darker man, whose private life played out like a West End farce.

But behind the humour, his manic sincerity and the relentless pace of his act, there hid a man living a double life.

Perhaps the most interesting off-stage fact about Cooper - and no, it's not that ...

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