One of my oldest and dearest friends - for 45 years - and the man behind Arlene Phillips and Bruno Tonioli amongst many others.
From cancer. We had dinner three weeks ago and he seemed on the road to recovery.
A lovely, funny, witty, sparkling man.

This is extremely sad news. Michael was terrific fun and very witty.A real live wire...agent to many stars.

My friend Michael - photograph.

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lovely seeing a snap of Michael.It looks like Spain..didn't he move there ?

Was it the actress Noelene Gordon from Crossroads who left her white Roller to him ?

Michael had a holiday home in Majorca.

He did indeed manage Noelle Gordon and she had a magnificent single out on UK Records.

Yes, she did leave Michael her Rolls. It was he who persuaded me to buy my first Rolls decades ago.

Ah memories.

I'm attending the private cremation this weekend. There will be a big memorial in a couple of weeks.

do leave some details then of the service and such.

I had to break the news to some of his entertainment friends in Thailand and the UK..which came from your website. So many people were fond of Michael.

Yes I can think of one in particular who would have been sad; I'll pass on the details of the memorial service when it's confirmed but it should be in 2 weeks.

Spent this morning at Michael's cremation; only 25 really close friends and family were there, including Bruno Tonioli and Arlene Phillips.

Very nice, peaceful ceremony with much happy memories afterwards.

The main memorial service will be on 10th July.

Just found out about Michael from Karen Grainger when I bumped into her in Sherborne on Saturday

First knew Michael when he bought our cottage in Wiltshire back in the eighties and we became friends

Very generous guy and great fun

We had some fabulous dinners with him

Still have a ruby glass ashtray ,which belonged to Noel Gordon, which was a present from him

J-L was even allowed to drive his convertible Merc with the NG 10 number plates

And it was a small world because when I moved to London I worked part time in Le Gourmet in the Kings Road where Lee from Hot Gossip also worked

Last time we saw Michael was when he popped into see us in Hammersmith

I think he was on his way home after a birthday lunch at Le Manoir

Karin was planning for us all to have a little get together down here in Dorset but it was not to be

Thank you; many friends from the past have appeared since hearing about Michael's death and several meals and meetings have resulted from that. His influence and memory lives on.