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Born in Birmingham, he attended Clifton Road School, Balsall Heath and Saint Philip"s School, which was a Roman Catholic grammar school for boys in Edgbaston.
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Don Maclean
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His first job was as a civil servant at the Inland Revenue and he was an entertainer in pubs, clubs and holiday camps. Maclean"s first television appearance was on the soap opera Crossroads and early in his career he was a comedy compère of the British Broadcasting Corporation Television Series The Black and White Minstrel Show. On Crackerjack Maclean usually performed a live routine or routines with Glaze in front of a studio audience of children and a filmed insert with Glaze, in the style of a silent comedy film.
Live routines would almost always work in the "joke" where an exasperated Glaze would exclaim "Maclean!" to which Maclean would answer "Yes, I had a bath this morning!".
Also notable was that when responding to Glaze"s exasperation, Maclean would regularly give an alliterative reply, such as "Don"t get your knickers in a knot" or "Don"t get your tights in a twist", the combination of which ("Don"t get your knickers in a twist") has passed into popular vernacular. Maclean also appeared in the film Carry On Columbus.
A practising Roman Catholic, from 1990 Maclean presented British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2"s religious show Good Morning Sunday, until he was replaced by Aled Jones in 2006. He hosted the panel games The Clever Dick-Athlon (1988-1990) and Are You Sitting Comfortably (1993-1996), both for Radio 2, and First Letter First (1993) for BBC1.
He also toured in the play There"s Number Place Like a Home with Gorden Kaye.
