Only Fools legend Sir David Jason reveals his wife can’t stand one of trademark props he ‘snaffled’ when series ended
SIR David Jason says his wife Gill got the hump when he wore Del Boy’s trademark coat off screen — because it made him smell like a camel.
The Only Fools and Horses star, 84, admits he took a sheepskin from the set of the BBC sitcom but rarely wears it.
He said: “I don’t dress like Del, despite having snaffled one of his coats from the wardrobe department at the end of the series as a souvenir.”
The coat, he said, was “very snug, actually, but not terribly stylish”.
He went on: “My wife gently suggested they made me look, and slightly smell, like a camel.”
Sir David first played market trader Del Boy in 1981, becoming a national treasure.
He was rarely seen without his beloved sheepskin in the early series.
In his new memoir This Time Next Year, out this week, Sir David also played down his reported feud with Only Fools co-star Nicholas Lyndhurst, 63.
He said of his fellow actor, who played Del’s brother Rodney: “You see each other very happily when the time allows — but so often the time simply doesn’t allow.”
He added: “The show ends. The circus moves on.
“You do other jobs.
“You have your own families and friends, your own set of circumstances, just like you did before you met.