The Channel 5 documentary Freddie Mercury: Secret Daughter examines the explosive declare that the nameless lady generally known as B is the Queen frontman’s secret youngster

The leisure world was surprised when Freddie Mercury’s alleged secret daughter got here ahead claiming he was her father. Now, journalist Lesley-Ann Jones investigates the claims in 5’s new documentary.

Freddie Mercury: Secret Daughter appears on the proof suggesting that the nameless ‘B,’ who was solely 15 when Mercury handed away, might in actual fact be his daughter. After exchanging emails with B, Lesley-Ann travels to Montreux, Switzerland – the place Freddie ceaselessly visited to document his songs – to fulfill her in individual.

B has revealed that Freddie gifted her 17 volumes of his private journals, which turned the inspiration for her guide Love, Freddie, and claimed she was the results of a one-time fling between him and her mom, the Mirror experiences.

The upcoming documentary, airing Saturday on Channel 5, digs deeper into the secrets and techniques Freddie shared together with his alleged daughter. Here’s a glimpse into a few of the bombshells featured within the documentary.

B’s ‘totally unmistakable resemblance’ to Freddie in images

Within the documentary, Lesley-Ann reveals that she met with B in-person and even noticed photos of her with Freddie. She mentioned: “I used to be struck by her totally unmistakable resemblance to Freddie.”

“She has his eyes, his jaw, his cheeks and his nostril. His arms and pores and skin tone and hair texture. There’s additionally a specific set of images which have been taken by Mick Rock, the person who shot the 70s, he was a detailed good friend of Freddie’s. He knew about B, he did a personal photograph session with them collectively and he gave Freddie the negatives. I’ve seen photos.”

Leslie-Ann tried to persuade B to share the images with the world, however she refused saying: “They’re information of my dad and the grandfather of my kids who cherish them and we would like them to stay non-public.”

Freddie’s pals ‘cannot settle for’ daughter as they share doubts

Freddie Mercury’s pals are additionally characteristic within the documentary sharing their scepticism over B being Freddie’s daughter. Document producer Mike Morann says he doubts Freddie would have hidden the existence of his youngster, including: “You’d suppose he would have dropped a touch.”

Journalist David Wigg provides: “That is what I discover so unusual – I believe if he had a baby, he can be happy with having a baby. He would inform his pals. I discover it odd that 30 years later this individual needs to return out however not even say who she is.”

B’s emails to Lesley-Ann point out that Freddie’s former associate, Mary Austin, was conscious of her and all his “undisclosed secrets and techniques.” Nonetheless, Mary informed The Occasions that she is “not the guardian of such a secret” and mentioned it will be “astonishing” if Freddie had a baby with out her data.

After talking with Mary, David tells the documentary that she declined to remark and “would not need to be concerned.”

As for the diaries that Freddie had allegedly wrote for B, his pals declare they by no means noticed Freddie “put pen to paper.” Mike says: “I by no means noticed a diary. I by no means noticed Freddie write in a diary, he by no means talked about a diary to anyone. How bizarre is that?”

Nonetheless, B insists he stored it secret from everybody. She mentioned: “He by no means needed anybody however me to see them, he wrote them privately protecting them hidden away on the flat in Finnemore Gardens. He wrote in order that I’d by no means doubt him or overlook who he actually was.”

David states that he “can’t settle for” B’s claims with out seeing proof, whereas Mike provides that if her allegations are unfaithful, “it’s a disgraceful factor to do to a unprecedented human being like Freddie.”

Freddie’s darkish childhood at non-public college

Within the documentary B opens up about Freddie’s childhood, claiming that he shared in his diaries that he was bullied by college students whereas attending St. Peter’s boarding college in Bombay, India.

Moreover she claims that one of many college head academics sexually abused Freddie for months. Lesley-Ann said: “She leaves us in little question what was occurring to Freddie and the way horrified and devastated and misplaced he felt.”

Whereas B alleges that Freddie intentionally sabotaged his tutorial outcomes to go away college. “It was an infinite factor to do as a result of he was a high-flyer however his distress drove him to fail in order that he might go away,” Lesley-Ann provides.

Within the documentary, faculty good friend Peter Humberstone remembers that Freddie not often spoke about his adolescence. “He was very non-public, he by no means mentioned something about India,” he says.

Freddie’s secret tapes

Folks have questioned why B wasn’t included in Freddie’s will if she is certainly his youngster, to which Lesley-Ann reveals within the documentary that he offered for her in one other manner.

“He was sustaining her privateness,” she explains “Freddie was shopping for and promoting gold bullion and invaluable work and created wealth for her over the interval of the 15 years of her life in order that she can be left supremely well-provided for.”

She additionally revealed that B owns loads of “unreleased recordings” from Freddie that can “by no means be launched”. She says: “They’ll by no means see the sunshine of day.”

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Why B cannot reveal her identification

In Saturday’s programme, B discloses that she can not reveal her identification for authorized causes, as she is unsure whether or not she legally owns the notebooks allegedly given to her by Freddie.

She explains that, because the Queen star left all the things to Mary Austin in his will, Queen’s whole again catalogue and inventive output – together with doubtlessly Freddie’s writings and songs – is now owned by Sony Music. B fears that if she reveals her identification, she is going to lose the notebooks.