A showbiz journalist who helped keep Liberace’s sexuality a secret has written a book about the flamboyant star.

John Rimington was personal publicist to the performer and helped prevent his homosexuality from becoming public knowledge for many years.

His working relationship with the star was so close that he and his wife Joyce – then deputy headmistress at Benton Park School – spent their honeymoon in Liberace’s Hollywood home after their wedding in Frank Sinatra’s hotel suite at Caesars Palace, in Las Vegas.

Now retired and living in Rawdon, Rimington has written Liberace – “Mr Showmanship”.

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