Post by dougie on Jan 11, 2009 22:08:19 GMT
Poor chap is looking a bit frail.
Though I can't help but think The Daily Mail would have been kinder if he hadn't been snapped carrying The Sun!
Article reads:
With his flowing hair and understated grin, he won a legion of female fans.
But the years have made their mark on Richard O'Sullivan.
Today he is almost unrecognisable as the star of the seventies TV comedy Man About The House.
The 64-year-old actor, who also starred in Robin's Nest and Me And My Girl, looked frail as he took a walk near the retirement home where he lives.
Wearing a jogging top, black trousers, and two pairs of glasses, he used a walking stick as he went to buy a newspaper near his West London home.
The star, who lives in a home for retired performers, has largely stepped away from the public eye since the late 1990s.
Before moving in with other performers at Brinsworth House he was said to have lived the life of a virtual recluse with his son in a two-bedroom London flat.
More than 30 years ago he was a sex symbol after he was cast as bachelor Robin Tripp, who shared a flat with two attractive women in Man About The House.
The show attracted as many as 16million viewers a week as he tried to seduce his housemates Chrissy and Jo, played by Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett.
O'Sullivan was said to have had an off-screen relationship with Thomsett after they met on the show.
After becoming a household name he was given his own show, Robin's Nest, which saw him playing a chef who opens a restaurant.
O'Sullivan fell in love with his co-star Tessa Wyatt and the pair had a son, Jamie.
But the relationship was said to have ended after they rowed constantly and he refused to marry her.
In 1994, O'Sullivan admitted being a 'hard-drinking depressive'. There have been rumours of ill health in recent years and it is understood he had suffered a stroke in 2003.
Of his original co-stars in Man About The House, Miss Wilcox has had a long and successful acting career, recently starring in Emmerdale and The Smoking Room.
Miss Thomsett settled down with landscape gardener Paul Agnew and devotes most of her time to bringing up their daughter.
