A miner's son who became a globe-trotting sales director has revealed how he became friends with comedy king Sir Ken Dodd, who gave him two of his famous tickling sticks.
During his long career Geoff Williams, raised in Llay, near Wrexham and now living in Southport, also rubbed shoulders with stellar names like singing superstar Sir Tom Jones, Hollywood actors Richard Burton and Jack Nicholson and Kop hero Bill Shankly.
Another claim to fame was that the 88-year-old persuaded Leeds United to allow the FA Cup to go on show at the British Legion in Llay.
Now he has put pen to paper about his extraordinary life in his newly-published autobiography,