OPENLY gay journalist and broadcaster David Self- who famously wrote the questions for ITV's Sale of the Century and who took part in one of the country's first civil ceremonies for gay couples- has died. Mr Self, 67, had been battling liver disease and cancer for sometime: his partner Majid Jawad described it as "not a nice death. "The couple met nine years ago and tied the knot at a civil ceremony at Audmoor House, March, on December 22, 2005- just days after a new Civil Partnership Act came into force.Mr Self, a Cambs Times and Wisbech Standard columnist for many years, contributed to the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Guardian and New Statesman as well as being a prolific writer of Christian books. He had published 78 books.
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