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Kathy Kirby had everything: a remarkable voice, stunning looks, universal popularity and she was a major TV and recording star with her biggest hit Secret Love selling over 500,000 records. She was the highest paid British female singer of the swinging sixties with millions in the bank and demand from all over the world for her talents - but almost overnight it had all gone. She retired from show business in 1983 and now lives a reclusive Garboesque existence, but the interest in her has never dimmed. So what went wrong for Kathy Kirby? Find out the full and frank truth of her meteoric rise to stardom and her heart-rending fall from grace with the FIRST on camera interview with Kathy Kirby in over 25 years. Plus discover who Kathy s Secret Love really was, with contributions from Bruce Forsyth, Jess Conrad, Marc Almond, Vince Hill, Sandie Shaw and many more. .
Acting
Kirby's raw, unguarded first interview in 25 years
Production
Archival footage of peak-sixties television glamour
Writing
The 'Secret Love' mystery finally cracked wide open
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kirby was the first British female singer to earn £1,000 a week—more than The Beatles early on. The documentary captures her watching her own ghost on vintage Top of the Pops.
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