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• Commissioned as a BBC One primetime series, the Asian Muslim sitcom follows the trials and tribulations of big-hearted, loud-mouthed, tight-fisted, self-appointed community leader Mr Khan (Adil Ray) and his long-suffering family: wife Mrs Khan (Shobu Kapoor) and daughters Shazia (Maya Sondhi) and Alia (Bhavna Limbachia).
• The reason that so many left to start their own club is that Ruehle was alleged to have been a particularly autocratic and tight-fisted individual—a characterization disputed by his son Michael, who asserts that disagreement over club policies played more of a role in rifts than Karl Ruehle's admittedly hard-headed nature.
• Gilbert recently went to his "fat cousin Steffy's wedding", where he realized that his normally tight-fisted stepfather's family became overwhelmingly generous for a family wedding; Moira's stepfather, the Duke of Dorsetshire, is likewise poised to shower the couple with cash, checks, and gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars.
• He retained ownership of the Echunga property, whose tenants he dealt with in a tight-fisted and curmudgeonly way, but his expenses exceeded his income and by the time of his death, in Ropley, Hampshire, his wealth had diminished to around £8,000, in today's values perhaps around $5,000,000.

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