The Original Big Friendly Giant ; How Wally the Builder Inspired Roald Dahl to Create His Favourite Character

Daily MailFebruary 12, 2004

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THE resemblance, Wally Saunders would himself privately admit, was too close for coincidence.

For a start there were the banana-like fingers, the ears as big as truck wheels and that ' enormous long pale wrinkly face'.

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The Original Big Friendly Giant ; How Wally the Builder Inspired Roald Dahl to Create His Favourite Character

Add to that his somewhat unorthodox use of English and it was hardly any surprise that wherever Wally went children would stop and stare.

For what they had guessed and what the Daily Mail can reveal following his death last week is...

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