Beloved kids’ show Rainbow appeared squeaky clean on the surface.
After hitting screens as a British equivalent of Sesame Street in 1972, the programme won the hearts of fans with the antics of the Rainbow House puppets, helmed by Zippy, Bungle and George.
Zippy’s puppeteer Ronnie Le Drew, who passed away on Monday aged 78, unmasked the explosive secrets of the show in his 2019 autobiography Zippy and Me: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Infamous Puppet.
The former debt collector revealed sexism, the culture of heavy drinking, host Geoffrey Hayes’s jealousy and the wild antics of the show’s star singer, Jane Tucker – who married both her
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