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Kathy Kirby, who died in 2011, was once one of the biggest sensations in UK showbusiness. Dubbed the British Marilyn Monroe she was the highest paid female singer and even represented the country in the Eurovision Song Contest coming a respectable second in 1965 with her song I Belong. Her hits such as Dance On and Secret Love, sold more than a million copies worldwide. To all intents and purposes she was set up for a life of luxury and superstardom.
However she would spend her final years living on benefits and the occasional royalty cheque, dying penniless in the famous actors and creatives retirement home Brinsworth House. She moved there on the insistence of her niece Sarah, known publicly as Lady Thatcher, wife of Mark Thatcher, who himself was son of the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. She died just a few days after the move from a heart attack.
It is a huge fall from grace for someone who in their heyday could fill any theatre in the country and had TV producers battling to have her perform on their shows. At one point she was earning £40,000 a week, staying at the best hotels and was being wooed by Bruce Forsyth, who, although married at the time, was seemingly desperate to make her his wife.
There was also an additional complication she suffered due to the jealousy of bandleader Bert Ambrose, who had discovered her as a raw 16-year-old and turned her into an overnight star. A friend of royalty, the East End-born Ambrose was 40 years older than Kathy and as her Svengali he had the power to break or make her.
She explained the situation to Express.co.uk in 2009. "What finished me was my six-month affair with Bruce Forsyth," she said. Bruce was in love with me and wanted to marry me but although we were very close, I still loved Bert. In my heart I knew I could never leave him, so it had to come to an end. Eventually, Bert found out the truth and was so hurt by it that it made him almost insane with jealousy."
As her manager and live-in lover, Bert received offers every day for the star but whereas in the past he had always made the right calls to boost her career, his judgments became clouded with irrational jealousy.
"I discovered that a Hollywood movie producer was offering me a three-picture deal. They thought I could become the British Doris Day or Monroe. Like Doris Day, I was not a trained actress but they said I could sing and I had presence," she recalled in the interview. "I had appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in the US and had some big hits there and I was keen to break into Hollywood but Bert decided not to go through with it."
"I was also doing the Kathy Kirby Show for the BBC and had offers from other television companies but all that began to dry up, too. Bert was turning down work for me because he thought I would leave him after having the affair with Bruce Forsyth but he should have known I never would. I think I could have played romantic leads or light comedy roles in movies but my silly affair with Bruce had inadvertently brought it all to an end. I could feel frustrated and bitter but in the end I just put it down to experience. What else could I do?
“Bert kept my head busy with singing jobs and appearances. I know I was big in my day and there are times when I think I could have had a bigger career but I loved Bert and I hated the fact that the affair was playing on his mind so much. It is terrible when someone gets so jealous that they can’t even think straight but I have so many happy memories that I can’t be bitter," she said.