Desmond Morris, the TV Zoologist and author has died, aged 98. RIP
He used to be on the screens all the time back in the black & white days, then wrote a controversial book, The Human Zoo, must have retired on the proceeds as he hasn’t been featured for years.
It's always rather fun when people who later became famous happened to know each other when they were young, particularly if the pairing was somewhat incongruous.
Desmond Morris’s obituary in yesterday’s
Times included this: “At the age of 17 he rowed a girlfriend, Diana Fluck (later better known as the actress and singer Diana Dors), who was three years his junior, to an island on the family lake. He showed her how to fish and she taught him the jitterbug, which she had learnt from American GIs. ‘She taught me how to kiss,’ he once said.”
Dors changed her name from Fluck when she made her first film. Wikpedia has this: “They asked me to change my name. I suppose they were afraid that if my real name Diana Fluck was in lights and one of the lights blew...”
Pity, really. “Fluck” has a certain resonance, and suited Dors’ image and her rackety private life.
