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Jimmy tarbuck was once nicked for stealing off of Terry Thomas

 

 

So when in 1960, at the height of his carefully nurtured fame, he came off stage after giving a midnight charity performance at the Liverpool Odeon to discover that his most expensive holder - a flashy little number decorated with 42 diamonds and a gold spiral band, reputedly worth £2,000 - had disappeared from his dressing room, he was livid.

The Liverpool police soon tracked down two of the diamonds to a local man called Alan Williams.

The other 40, however, were found inside a roll of carpet at the home of a 20-year-old, unemployed comedian called James Joseph Tarbuck.

Jimmy Tarbuck, whose 'Boom-Boom' catch phrase would soon become as famous as Terry-Thomas's 'I say!', pleaded guilty to theft and was placed on probation for two years.

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Jimmy tarbuck was once nicked for stealing off of Terry Thomas

 

 

So when in 1960, at the height of his carefully nurtured fame, he came off stage after giving a midnight charity performance at the Liverpool Odeon to discover that his most expensive holder - a flashy little number decorated with 42 diamonds and a gold spiral band, reputedly worth £2,000 - had disappeared from his dressing room, he was livid.

The Liverpool police soon tracked down two of the diamonds to a local man called Alan Williams.

The other 40, however, were found inside a roll of carpet at the home of a 20-year-old, unemployed comedian called James Joseph Tarbuck.

Jimmy Tarbuck, whose 'Boom-Boom' catch phrase would soon become as famous as Terry-Thomas's 'I say!', pleaded guilty to theft and was placed on probation for two years.

 

I say, what a rotter

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