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Other activists started to call them Grandma and Grandpa, pet names they’ve since adopted at home to replace traditional terms of endearment.

“I realized Larry was falling in love with me,” she told The Times in 1996, when he called her by a pet name while they were in rehearsals.

Outside is a bench dedicated to "Jennie Wren" – the family's pet name for her daughter – where Ms Moore often sits to reflect and allow memories from happier times to return.

According to one explanation, Parnelli was an aunt’s pet name for her young nephew.

Under her relentless barrage of attention — including the pet name that gives the series its title — his life spirals out of control, and past traumas are unearthed.