The origins of "He's fallen in the water!"
During the Goon Show years, the Sellers family spent a
lot of time at the Milligan’s residence in Holden
Road.
"We used to go round there and swim in the pool. I
coined the phrase, 'He’s fallen in the water' at that
house," reveals Michael Sellers, the eldest of Peter
Sellers’ three children.
"[There was] a big canvas pool in the garden that
was like an army surplus thing. You’d fill it with
water and... it was high and scary, big and full of water
and people would go, 'Get in there' and I’d go, 'Oh,
no, no'. Anyway apparently they’d run down the garden,
leapt up over the side and I said 'He’s fallen in
the water' and that’s where it came from."
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