Overview
- Fresh excerpts describe O’Grady refusing an ICD after a week at William Harvey Hospital, opting to keep working on Annie and a dog show rather than recuperate.
- In a text to his daughter, he wrote that a cardiologist wanted him to have a defib but he was not having one, calling the advice overcautious.
- Manager Joan Marshrons says he feared losing control and potential embarrassment if a device activated on camera or onstage.
- The book notes he died on 28 March 2023 from sudden cardiac arrhythmia, with the declined device presented as potentially life‑saving.
- Paul O’Grady – Not The Same Without You also raises concerns he may have struggled with eating linked to maintaining Lily Savage’s slim look and is being serialised by the Mirror.