{"id":429998,"date":"2023-09-07T21:28:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T21:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totalcelnews.com\/?p=429998"},"modified":"2023-09-07T21:28:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T21:28:03","slug":"comedy-legend-sir-ken-dodds-widow-is-being-haunted-by-his-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totalcelnews.com\/music\/comedy-legend-sir-ken-dodds-widow-is-being-haunted-by-his-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy legend Sir Ken Dodd\u2019s widow is being haunted by his ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Comedy legend Sir Ken Dodd\u2019s widow is being haunted by the funnyman\u2019s ghost.<\/p>\n

    Lady Anne Dodd said that Ken\u2019s spirit is \u2018all around\u2019 their home in Knotty Ash, a suburb of Liverpool, where Ken lived his entire life.<\/p>\n

    The legend – known as Doddy – lived in Oak House, a listed Georgian farmhouse, since he was born in November 1927 – and died there at the age of 90 in 2018.<\/p>\n

    Lady Anne, 81, who had been Ken\u2019s partner for more than 40 years, married him just two days before his death, inheriting his \u00a328m fortune.<\/p>\n

    Speaking yesterday (Thurs), Anne said she always leaves one light on at night, shining on a portrait of the wild-haired master of the tickling stick and leader of the Diddy Men, who was knighted in 2017.<\/p>\n

    She said: \u201cI always say \u2018goodnight\u2019 to the picture.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Anne said Ken\u2019s presence \u2018remains everywhere\u2019 in the house – where his family lived for generations – saying she believes the house is \u2018haunted\u2019 by her hubby, dubbed the Squire of Knotty Ash.<\/p>\n

    She said: \u201cThe weirdest thing is a door…every so often it closes, and we have all heard it.<\/p>\n

    \u201cYou think \u2018For goodness\u2019 sake, it\u2019s just air (or) someone has opened another door\u2019, but it\u2019s not…he\u2019s around!\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Lady Anne said she also often dreamed of her husband and begs him not to leave.<\/p>\n

    She said: \u201cOften I dream about him, but it\u2019s so real I say \u2018Please don\u2019t go away!\u201d<\/p>\n

    Sir Ken was known for his super-long live shows, often going on for five hours or more and always aiming at getting \u2018seven titters per minute\u2019 from the audience.<\/p>\n

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    In the 1960s he got into The Guinness Book of Records for the world\u2019s longest-ever joke-telling session after cracking 1,500 jokes in three-and-a-half hours at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool.<\/p>\n

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