CAMBRIDGEįRY: Winning a scholarship to Queens’ College, he showed off his intellect on the TV quiz show University Challenge. Laurie’s father, an Oxford GP, was an Olympic rowing gold medallist and, at Eton, son Hugh followed family traditions. LAURIE: Born to strict Scottish Presbyterian parents. While studying for his A-levels, he spent three months behind bars on remand after stealing a family friend’s credit card.
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He was expelled from two private schools, one of them Uppingham, where he committed a series of misdemeanours which culminated in bunking off to London where he binge-watched X-rated films in a cinema. Laurie, 57, is a household name in America thanks to his award-winning role in medical drama House and is currently promoting his latest TV series.Īs for Fry, 59, he has deserted Britain, where he has polarised opinion like no other celebrity, to have what might be his last crack at breaking Hollywood and getting his own name on that famous pavement.įRY: The son of a physicist and inventor, Fry had a troubled adolescence. Wodehouse.īut while they’ve remained close their careers have diverged drastically. The friends famously started performing together as students at Cambridge before launching themselves as a TV double act that could take on anything from comedy sketches to the greatest creations of P.G. I can say like Doctor Watson of his friend Holmes, the kindest and wisest friend I ever knew,’ said Fry. ‘While he may not be the first wise and kind star to be set in a paving slab in old Hollywood, I venture to suggest no star was ever wiser or kinder. Stephen Fry, however, was characteristically gushing as he attended the event, happily basking in his close friend’s glory. Modest to a fault, Hugh Laurie said he felt ‘incredibly lucky’ when he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame this week.