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He kept his homosexuality secret from most of his friends but, as his TV career took off with the pre-Python sketch series, At Last The 1948 Show, Chapman decided to throw a coming-out party. On holiday in Ibiza, he met a gay student, David Sherlock, who was to be his lifelong partner.
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It finished with us in a shower, where a girl offered to help us, and we both said, “Oh no, no, no thank you” - terribly English.’Ī very naughty boy: Graham Chapman pictured with a pipe with his co-stars in the pre-Python sketch series At Last the 1948 ShowĬhapman’s innocence did not last. ‘A lovely girl massaged our backs and all of our fronts, basically, but not the naughty bits, turned us over and suddenly a male masseur leapt on our backs. On the way home, they stopped in Hong Kong where, as Brooke-Taylor recalls, ‘We thought this might be the moment for a little how’s-your-father, so we went to a massage parlour. However, he continued working with Brooke-Taylor and Cleese and the young comics took their stage show, Cambridge Circus, to New Zealand and America. A really nice guy, always thoughtful, who somehow knew when you were feeling low and would haul you back up again.’Īfter graduation, Chapman went to St Bartholomew’s teaching hospital in London, where he became secretary of the students’ union. He was a fairly heavy drinker, but I think all medical students were then. ‘He was a rugby-playing, beer-drinking medical student, terrific fun. Worlds apart: Chapman's onscreen persona, pictured centre as King Arthur in the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, was belied by his life of booze and sexual experimentation