Cilla Black
Cilla Black
Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE, known by her stage name Cilla Black, was an English singer, television presenter, actress, and author...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth27 May 1943
CityLiverpool, England
bring dress home looking mummy remember sudden
I remember one day my son, our Robert, was looking at me on the settee and looking at me on the television, and then all of a sudden he said: 'Why don't you bring that pretty mummy home with you?' And I thought: 'Oh dear, I'm going to have to dress up at home now as well!'
andrew benefits enjoyed late prince private romantic special spoils stay
After Fergie and Prince Andrew honeymooned at Le Touessrok in Mauritius, Bobby, my late husband, and I were first to stay in their suite. We enjoyed the benefits - all the spoils and the special luxuries. We practically had our own private beach, and it was most romantic.
early generation pop singer
There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.
bull business cannot china great sit
I cannot do business. I cannot sit and say, 'How are you, the weather's great, how's your golf?' I'm like a bull in a china shop.
brought god might next picked prayers roman spares usual
I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I don't pray to God any more. I might use the usual phrases I picked up from my parents, 'Oh, if God spares me next year...' or 'Please God...' but they're only phrases.
bedroom call days hours literally rats shut time
I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.
brian fancy handsome money tall
Who wouldn't fancy Brian Epstein? He was tall and handsome and had money and class.
lap
Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'
music work society
Work is a four-letter word.
acid
I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.
joints enjoy joint-efforts
I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.
bullying gay blood
Singer Cilla Black's introduction to homophobic bullying occurred during a visit from Billy, a dear childhood friend. Sharing a room with Ms Black's boyfriend, Billy Returning after having gone out by himself: collapsed by the bed and burst into floods of tears, his face bruised and splattered with blood. ... " I'm Gay," Billy said, "and I've just been beaten up and robbed by a guy who picked me up in a bar and took me back to his place."
dear-friend dear
I love Simon Cowell, he's a dear friend.
sexy god-knows knows
I'm not, sexy, am I? God knows, I've tried