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I don't buy it. I have read several Benny Hill bios - 'Saucy Boy' (by his brother), 'The Strange & Saucy World of Benny Hill' (by his best friend, producer, and director Dennis Kirkland), and the borderline hatchet-job 'Funny, Peculiar' by Mark Lewison.

Each book covers the innuendo of homosexuality when it came to Benny, but each book dismisses it. Best as I can tell, he had a handful of female companions in his life but he had a very immature view of romance. Through his adult years, he really thought it should be like it is in the movies, and was continuously devastated when it never worked out that way.

Benny was basically a loner who definitely liked women, but never could connect with one emotionally for a variety of reasons, and there's no real evidence homosexuality was one of those reasons.

In fact, there is some smoke, and certainly a little fire, that he indulged in sexual romps with some beauties on his show. Evidently a handful came forward over the years that it wasn't unusual for a babe to vanish into Benny's room and 'be nice to Uncle Benny,' usually a euphemism for fellating him.

While these stories surfaced now and then, most of the women who knew and worked with Benny defended him and had extraordinary loyalty to him, though avoiding answering the question if they had ever been nice to Uncle Benny in that way, themselves.

Benny was certainly a loser in love and fairly immature when it came to sex, but I don;t think he was gay, or bisexual for that matter. Benny loved women, he just had a hard time holding up his end of an adult romance. Sad, but not unlike many of the great comedians.