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In his autobiography Sing Lofty: Thoughts Of A Gemini, Estelle was extremely bitter about modern-day entertainment, attacking those who refused to rerun It Ain't Half Hot Mum as " tight-crutched, white-trousered morons ".

According to his obituary in The Independent, " in recent years Estelle cut a slightly sorry figure, dressed in his ' Lofty ' outfit, setting out a stall of his tapes and singing to passers-by in shopping centres.

Similarly, he played a dirty old man in the promotional video for The Sun Page Three Girl Jo Hicks ' single " Yakety Sax " ( 2001 ), The Benny Hill Show theme.

" One of the stalls he performed at for a time was in the Boston, Lincolnshire branch of Woolworths.

He could also be seen performing in Cwmbran town centre in South Wales.