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He also put in a call to Clough's then-assistant Alan Hill, the owner of the house, carpet and flowers at the centre of Saunders' yarn.
“It’s a good after-dinner speech but unfortunately most of it isn’t true,” Hill told Taylor. “Brian wasn’t drunk, he wasn’t crawling on his hands and knees, he didn’t sit facing a wall, he didn’t mention the carpet once and there was no flowerpot.
"It just feels like he [Saunders] has put this story through a very imaginative scriptwriter and this is what they’ve come up with.”
Saunders declined to comment when contacted by Taylor.
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