The stockbroker s son who ran away to the circus! How Gerry Cottle, who died of Covid-19 at 75, left boring suburbia to become king of the Big Top with a VERY colourful love life - and beat bankruptcy, drugs and sex addiction
Circus impresario Gerry Cottle, from Surrey, has died of Covid-19 aged 75
Born to a stockbroker father, he ran away to join the circus at the age of 15
He found success and in his heyday was the operator of Britain s biggest circus
But there was also bankruptcy, a cocaine habit and a sex addiction