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Jeff Dexter: Jeff thinks it's funny: "Even with a beard they call me Madam"

Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 20 December 1969

A HALF-DEAD fly cruised slowly and miserably around Jeff Dexter's ash blond shoulder-length hair and made its unhappy way towards me. Dexter must have read my mind because before I could even pick up my Evening Standard with which to swat it dead he stopped me: "Don't kill it. The commandment says 'Thou Shalt Not Kill'."

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