I wondered if he’d do a runner today, and get us both arrested. ‘I’m not ashamed of having been to prison,’ he said. When he’s not out on the street or sleeping in French foyers, he has a habit of staying in smart hotels and leaving without paying – a trick that’s landed him in jail. ‘I don’t want to live a normal life.’Īs anyone who reads his column knows, Wilfred’s daily life is defiantly abnormal. I asked him if he’d ever been tempted to lead a normal life. ‘The secret of old age is to live in the present,’ he told me. When I met him in Bournemouth, to toast his 300th appearance in The Oldie in this month’s issue, he’d checked out of his hotel and had no idea where he was headed. Where will Wilfred De’Ath be celebrating his eightieth birthday on 28th July? In a posh hotel, a seedy night shelter or at Her Majesty’s Pleasure? Don’t bother asking him. Here is William Cook's interview with him on his 80th birthday The Oldie is deeply sad to report the death of our star columnist Wilfred De'Ath on February 19th, aged 82.
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