Paul O'Grady says he is being haunted by a ghost he can smell in his own home.
The Birkenhead television and radio star, 66, said he had previously noticed a perfume-like scent when he moved into his house.
Appearing on the Paranormal Activity podcast hosted by his friend, Yvette Fielding, he recalled experiencing the scent for the first time.
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He said: "When I first moved in here, people used to say they could smell perfume. And I couldn't, I never smelled it. It was about two years later, I got up one night and went downstairs for a drink, and I smelled it on the stairs, it hit me."
After meeting a woman at lunch who was a friend of the lady who used to live in the house he owns, they came to a realisation.
He added: "This is the weird bit. I went to lunch two years ago and the girl who was sitting next to me was a friend of one of the relations of the lady who lived in this house.
"And she had a message for me, the girl, she said 'ask Paul does he smell the perfume?'
"And I went 'What?" I said 'Yes, I can' and she said, 'It's by Jean Patou, or somebody'."
After their conversation Paul went on eBay and bought a bottle of Joy by French fashion designer Jean Patou to see if it was the same smell - which it was.
On the podcast O'Grady also expressed his wish to come back as a poltergeist following his death.
He said: "If there is an afterlife, I'm coming back as a poltergeist. I can't wait.
"You'll be in your kitchen and a plate will go flying, and you'll know it's me."
Former Blue Peter presenter Yvette replied: "We could be bad together. We could be really bad together, couldn't we. We could go to the Houses of Parliament..."
Paul: "Oh, we could do all sorts. I'd pee in the members' drinking tank and all manner of stuff. I'd do terrible things. It would be such a hoot.
"And anyway, they'd get an exorcist in and that would be the end of us. Woof, puff of smoke, down to hell for bad behaviour."
Paul O'Grady's episode of Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding is available from Thursday.
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