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TIL that 50’s British comedian Hattie Jacques, famous for pioneering ‘fat humour’ (female), had an affair with her driver and, with her husband’s consent, moved him into their home. When she finally got a divorce, her husband lied that he was the adulterer to save her public reputation.

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