Michael Barrymore To Return To ITV After 16 Years
Barrymore will be fronting a documentary about the late comedian Larry Grayson at Easter on ITV3.
16 years after he was sensationally dropped from the network, Michael Barrymore is to make his return to ITV later in a few weeks’ time.
The 65 year old presenter, who was axed from the broadcaster in 2002 in the aftermath of the death of Stuart Lubbock in his swimming pool at his home in Essex the previous year, will be appearing in an ITV3 documentary being broadcast at Easter about the late comedian Larry Grayson, for whom he was a warm-up act on ‘The Generation Game’ when Grayson replaced Bruce Forsyth as presenter in 1978.
“He had an amazing career out of just being Larry Grayson,” he says on the programme, titled ‘Shut That Door’.
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