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Jason has expressed a negative opinion of the European Union, being quoted in a 2012 interview with "the Germans want to run Europe. The irony is that here we are, the world has changed, and the Germans want to run Europe. They failed to do it by war, twice. What is it? Is this the Fourth Reich?" [27]

New York Festivals Radio Awards 2023 Best Talk/Interview Special (Nominee) British Book Awards 2013 Biography/Autobiography of the Year ( Winner) BAFTA Television Awards 2003 BAFTA Fellowship ( Winner) National Television Awards, The 2002 Comedy Performer ( Winner) British Comedy Awards 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award ( Winner) BAFTA Television Awards 1997 Best Comedy Performance ( Winner) British Comedy Awards 1997 Best TV Comedy Actor ( Winner) National Television Awards, The 1997 Comedy Performer ( Winner) National Television Awards, The 1996 Comedy Performer ( Winner) When she did, I would ask if a nice hotel could be found for us, so that she could be somewhere comfortable. Stuff the two-up, two-down and the Mini on the drive. Stuff the conventional path I’d slowly been drifting up’ - Jason decided to turn pro.

Jason’s solace - ‘an escape I increasingly found myself hurrying towards’ - was amateur dramatics. For his performances in John Osborne and Tennessee Williams with the Muswell Hill Players, a local newspaper called him ‘a young James Cagney’. Promotion of a kind came in 1967 with a role in Do Not Adjust Your Set, co-starring the pre-Python Pythons, Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Terry Jones. David Jason shares his Only Fools and Horses secrets". The Daily Telegraph. 10 October 2013. Archived from the original on 13 October 2013 . Retrieved 25 October 2013. In September 2006, Jason topped the poll to find TV's 50 Greatest Stars, as part of ITV's 50th anniversary celebrations. [5] He was knighted in 2005 for services to acting and comedy. Jason has won four British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), (1988, 1991, 1997, 2003), four British Comedy Awards (1990, 1992, 1997, 2001) and seven National Television Awards (1996 twice, 1997, 2001 twice, 2002 and 2011). Olivia Culpo shows off her NFL star fiancé Christian McCaffrey's painful bruises and scratches from the 49ers' Thanksgiving win over the SeahawksBut in his new autobiography My Life, the 73-year-old has opened up on his tragic off-screen romance with Welsh actress Myfanwy Talog, which ended in heartbreak with her untimely death at the age of 50.