Paul O'Grady Quotes
I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.
O'Grady, Paul. Paul O'Grady's Country Life. Bantam Press, 2017, p. 14.
As Secretary of Commerce, he came up with his “Buy a Pig” campaign. The idea was to have millions of American suburban and small town families raise a pig and thereby relieve the food shortage during WWI. With so much manpower needed for fighting, and an agriculture much more dependent on human labor, there were food shortages. The campaign was a flop. Suburbanites did not accept the idea of raising pigs.
Paul James O'Grady MBE, is an English comedian, television presenter, actor, writer, radio host, producer, and former drag queen. He achieved notability in the London gay scene during the 1980s with his drag queen persona Lily Savage, with which he went mainstream in the 1990s. O'Grady subsequently dropped the character and in the 2000s became the presenter of various television and radio shows, most notably The Paul O'Grady Show (2004–2009, 2013–2015).