Barbara Windsor’s widower Scott Mitchell pays tribute to Paul O’Grady

BARBARA Windsor’s widower Scott Mitchell has paid tribute to Paul O’Grady, calling him “the most wonderful man”.

He told GB News: “I’m a bad sleeper and just by chance I did that terrible thing. I have my phone but my bed and I just happened to press the text at about 2.30 this morning.

“It said Andre, who would never text me, really. And I just knew, I just knew, and he just let me know what had happened.

“I’ve hardly slept since, I just kept thinking about it. He was the most wonderful man, as I don’t need to tell you.

“I just can’t believe I’m talking about him in the past tense.

“We know he had health problems and everything else but he kind of seemed invincible always.”

In a discussion during Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, Scott added: “He was to me invincible, and he was very real, and funny, and intelligent.

“And I have to say, when Barbara was ill, he was such a loyal friend. He kept coming around to see how she was.

“He turned up on the back of a motorbike on his way to work somewhere. And he never forgot her and he’d sit there and he’d listen to her repeat herself the whole time.

“He was also really lovely to me since then and made sure that I wasn’t left out.”