Right Said Fred star Fred Fairbrass confesses he was a drug dealer before finding fame
RIGHT Said Fred star Fred Fairbrass has confessed he was a drug dealer before finding fame.
The musician, 65, who formed the band with singer brother Richard, 68, says he sold cocaine and amphetamines from his minicab to prostitutes and clubbers.
The skinheaded duo hit the big time with 1991 single I’m Too Sexy — but Fred tells of his narcotic dealing in London in their new autobiography Still Too Sexy: Surviving Right Said Fred.
He admits: “I used to sell speed and coke. I was a minicab driver in Fulham in 1982, and I used to work nights, and a bloke in the house I was living in was an amphetamine cook.
“So I used to buy a couple of grams here and there, firstly to keep awake, but then I had customers that wanted to buy it. I could deal in the car.
“I was useful because I ended up selling amphetamines from my cab.
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“I worked nights, because the party crowd and hookers were more than happy to buy my drugs. That paid my way very nicely.
“Although I was driving around with grams of speed on me, London felt quite anarchic back then, so it didn’t cross my mind that it was illegal.
“Fortunately I was never robbed or busted.”
Former movie director Fred also admits giving his film crew drugs to get them to work late at night.
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He explains that “it was much cheaper to give the crew a couple of lines of coke so that they’d work late, rather than get a new crew in to work overnight”.
The pair were running a gym when they wrote their debut single mimicking bodybuilders and claimed they made more than £10million from I’m Too Sexy.
Richard previously revealed the band received £4million when Taylor Swift used the song’s melody on her 2017 hit track Look What You Made Me Do.