Charlotte Dawson remembers her dad Les

Charlotte Dawson marks the anniversary of her father Les Dawson's death

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00:00been absolutely hectic this morning, mum life, then getting glam life, I've had to do me

00:04own make up, I've still got it guys haven't I? Still got it. Would you like to see more

00:09make up videos? Let me know. But what do you all think I'm doing today? So it's my first

00:15day today and I am so excited, I'm nervous but excited. But it is a little bit of a bittersweet

00:22day, it's an emotional day as well, it's an exciting day. But I really feel like my dad's

00:26with me today, I really do. I saw a robin on the way here as well and I'll show you

00:31a little picture, I saw a robin and I was at the traffic lights and I just really felt

00:36like he was with me. It's the anniversary of my dad's death today, 10th June, 31 years

00:43ago, I can't believe it's been 31 years, I just can't, I really can't. I can't even imagine

00:48how my mum must be feeling today but let's just remember what an incredible legacy my

00:55dad's left. He is everybody's hero still today after 31 years, he is the biggest legend.

01:04I can't wait for the boys, obviously no one knows exactly who Grandad Yez is, Grandad

01:08Yez. We watched his videos last night in bed and he was just laughing his head off, he

01:13finds him hilarious. His comedy is so up to date isn't it, it's just never, never gonna

01:18date and he's just my hero, everybody's hero and he's still loved by so many and remembered

01:27by so many which is just incredible. My dad would be buzzing up there. So let's have a

01:32chippy today guys, that was his favourite like me, chips and gravy and have a right

01:37go.

01:48Grandad Yez. Grandad Yez. Grandad, this is Woody. This is Woody? Grandad, this is Spiderman.

02:12Grandad, this is Spiderman. This is Spiderman. Grandad, this is Spiderman. Grandad, do you

02:30want a chippy? He loves that. Say it again. Chicken nugget, chicken nugget, chicken nugget.

02:42We're having a picnic. You're having a picnic? Can you sit down with me? Yeah, I'm gonna

02:48sit down. Cheesy chips. Cheesy. Cheesy. Should we do a ching ching? Ching ching. We love

03:02you Grandad. We love you Daddy. We're having a picnic. We wish you were here. We wish you

03:08were here. He's up in heaven isn't he? Where is he going? Up heaven. Is he up there? Up

03:16there? We love you. We love you. We love you so much. I said chippy chip. I said chippy

03:32chip. Is he having some more? Are you going to bite the ends for him? Oh, he's biting

03:36the ends for him. Oh, bless you. Oh, he's cutting the ends for you again. Good boy Noah.

03:48Judy, Judy, Noah's got that for you. Is that yummy?

03:56The pregnancy had come as a huge shock, but both Les and Tracy were delighted when on

04:08the 3rd of October, 1992, Charlotte Emily Leslie Dawson was born. A new arrival that

04:14was captured in these extraordinary home videos. On the 16th of June, 1993, Les's funeral took

04:22place at the church in Lytton, where he'd married Tracy just four years earlier. Do

04:30you have any regrets? No. Oddly enough, no. With all its ups and downs, with all its drama,

04:40with all its silliness and the awful mistakes and the stupidity I've done, no regrets. On

04:50the day of the funeral, my sister had hold of Charlotte and she was shouting, Dada, and

04:56banging on the car window. I thought, gosh, he's come back to see her, you know. And Les

05:06had one last surprise in store for his millions of fans.

05:10Haven't we, Les? It's very good, yes. Do you cook yourself? Only if I fall in the oven.

05:20Thanks, love. Can you keep that one in? Don't edit that laugh out. That'll do me for the

05:28year. No.

05:40Thank you.