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He found it increasingly tough to remember any lines and on one troublesome shoot, where each scene needed at least 20 retakes, Jones resorted to putting his colleague’s lines on a clipboard he was holding so Chapman could read them without the director realising.Īnother time he refused to stand near the edge of a precipice to the surprise of his colleagues who knew him as a thrill seeker with a love of dangerous sports. This booze habit could make Chapman difficult to work with. “It was not till much later when Graham had given up drinking he told me he couldn’t start the day without a couple of vodkas.” “I never put two and two together,” he said. And Palin used to wonder what kind of toothpaste Chapman used because there was such a strong smell in the car when they picked him up at 9.30am. Only later did Jones grasp that this was his first gin and tonic of the day.
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Jones recalls him at those script meetings sucking contentedly on his pipe – a youthful affectation that would help kill him – and sipping a glass of water. Something he also kept to himself was his drinking. He helped finance the pioneering newspaper Gay News and he and his partner David Sherlock even formally adopted a teenage runaway from Liverpool, decades before the restrictions on lesbian and gay adoption were formally lifted. Yet despite his fierce shyness he was also the first celebrity to make his homosexuality public knowledge, coming out on television in the mid-1970s. Chapman was so private that the others were astonished when he announced to them he was gay – they’d had no inkling.