The Guv'nor: The Autobiography of Lenny McLean

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Similarly, the author hints that she is no longer speaking to her brother Jamie,but we never learn why. In his autobiography, McLean claimed to have competed in almost 4,000 fights over three decades, and said he won the large majority of these.

Field had been beaten by Pearce's brother, 'Bimbo Pearce', and twice beaten by Johnny "Big Bad" Waldron. Dalton had made many other enemies, and was found dead with a bullet in his head in 1992, [13] a murder for which McLean asserted his innocence. and looked over, gave him a scowl and a growl, and he behaved like a choirboy for the rest of the night. I’m absolutely shocked and ashamed because if I’d known then what I do now I probably wouldn’t have looked at my dad the way I did. He was also known in the London nightclub scene as a bouncer, where he often managed security, including 1980s celebrity hangouts, such as Garth Crooks Team of the Week Club, in Hounslow.

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A joint Scotland Yard and NSPCC report branded him one of the UK’s most prolific known sexual predators. When he won he’d come home with a wad of cash and throw in the air like confetti, to the joy of Kelly and her brother Jamie, now 47. Sharp First Separate Edition, originally published a year earlier by Collins as "The Guv'nor and Other Stories" which contained four novelettes. Being a famous figure in unlicensed boxing, McLean made fans as well as enemies, such as the supporters of his boxing rivals and disgruntled punters who had lost money betting on McLean's opponents. McLean was also described as a "fixer" and a "minder", meaning a bodyguard, for criminals and celebrities including Mike Reid, Boy George, and the casts of television shows such as EastEnders and The Bill.She believes if he’d had the right medication as a young man his life could have been completely ­different. However, as Kelly explains, unfortunately her father’s moods were not just drink-related, but stemmed from his unhappy and abusive childhood and possibly from undiagnosed mental health issues as well. When she was asmall child, her father was a heavy drinker, and would often come home and shout andswear at their mother.

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One of the assailants, Barry Dalton, a former bare-knuckle fighter who ran protection rackets across London, had a falling out with McLean and confronted him with a shotgun at his home while his children were in the house. I was just having a walk about, making sure no one was taking the pee, when I spotted this little sod harassing the merchandise crew.

Now, f*** off before I drag you up on that stage and show you up for the depraved little s**t you are! Hodder Paperback edition on generally vg- condition; spine complete; pp browning; no handwriting inside such as names; ; Hodder; Vol. She remembers how he once put opponent Brian “The Mad Gypsy” Bradshaw in a coma but visited him in hospital days later. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and improve our understanding of you. Fuelled by the rage he felt over his abusive childhood, he claimed to have defeated thousands of ­opponents.

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McLean lost some face as he was challenged by the "King of the Gypsies" Bartley Gorman, but did not accept the fight. He gravitated towards acting after being introduced to an acting agent by his show-business friends Mike Reid and Freddie Starr, for whom he had "minded". Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper.

In his prime, the 6-foot-3-inch (191cm) tall McLean weighed over 20 stone (280lb; 130kg) and was considered the "unofficial heavyweight champion of Great Britain". He expressed the rage resulting from his abusive childhood with such abandon that it often took several men to separate him from his defeated opponent, gaining him the nickname "Ten Men Len" because of how many men were needed to restrain him. He stated in his autobiography that he had been involved in between 2,000 and 3,000 unlicensed fights.