Personal Life
From a working-class background, he is a strong supporter of the Labour Party. He has served as president of Equity, the actors' union.
He has been married four times. Booth nearly burned to death in 1979 when, during a drunken attempt to get into his locked flat, he fell into a drum of paraffin. He spent six months in hospital and needed 26 skin graft operations. Shortly after his release from hospital, he went to visit an 'old flame', Coronation Street actress Pat Phoenix. She took him in and nursed him back to full health, and they lived together for six years, but eventually, Pat Phoenix's own health began to fail; they were married in 1986, just days before her death from lung cancer.
In a rebuke to the British government's treatment of pensioners, Booth retired to Blacklion, County Cavan, in the Republic of Ireland, but has since returned and lived in Broadbottom, 10 miles east of Manchester. He currently resides in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. He suffered a stroke in 2010.
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