Fire-breathing for my 7th birthday..and getting me to buy This tights

Sharyn recalls life with Lily star

- MARK JEFFERES

THERE will not be many teenagers who find themselves popping to the shop to buy tights for their dad or tramping around the house in his thigh-high boots.

But then not everyone grew up with Britain’s best-loved drag queen act whose outrageous outfits and sharp tongue had audiences in fits.

Now, Sharyn Mousley has spoken for the first time in a TV interview about life with Paul O’Grady at the height of Lily Savage’s fame.

And the 48-year-old says while her dad’s alter ego went down a storm with millions of viewers, not all his performances were a hit with her.

Sharyn recalls living in London in the 90s with Paul, who died last March at the age of 67.

In the show, to mark the anniversary of Paul’s death, the mum of two said: “I wasn’t allowed to see a lot of Lily when I was little, I think because of the language. I didn’t understand most of the jokes anyway.

“I was about seven and it was my birthday party. And my dad said, I’ve got a great surprise for you.

He swallows this fluid and then starts fire-eating in my mum’s little flat, and there was scorch marks on the ceiling and all the

girls were screaming because, like, ‘it’s a fire’. I was mortified when he thought it was [great] and he’s doing all this and he’s like blown fire.

“I’m seven, I wanted a clown. “As I got older I want to see Lily.