Shall I let you into a little secret? My
medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois and I have always wanted to “hob-nob” with
celebrities and “borrow” some of their glamour and glitter, even it’s only “at
second hand” - I think it’s what we were somehow “born to be”. And today could
be the very last day that we aren’t in the gossip pages ourselves, so something
to savour there, and to look back on fondly and with nostalgia, years from now!
Our transition to being celebrities is going to be a big
transformation for our lives, which at the moment are extremely humble to put
it mildly! And to be brutally frank, we only have the very vaguest idea now about
who today’s “crop” of celebrities are, so that’s a handicap for starters!
We neither of us watch celebrity editions of popular game-shows
– to us, they’re just the same as the ordinary editions. “Celebrity Specials”
are a pleasure enjoyed by millions but denied to us. And I feel we’re being
unfairly singled out, simply because we don’t watch” the right TV soaps” and we
don’t “stream” awful songs from “Potify” or whatever it’s called – call us old “dinosaurs” if you like haha!
And it’s true that Lois and I are not getting any nearer to
celebrities, but strangely, celebrities are gradually getting nearer to us –
mainly through the increasingly “celebrity lifestyle” of our daughter Alison,
who lives in Hampshire with her hotshot lawyer husband Ed, and their 2
daughters Josie and Rosalind and son Isaac.
It all started when Ali and Ed were living in Copenhagen,
Denmark, and Ali got to meet the UK’s entry to the Eurovision Song Contest at the British Embassy –
remember that?
Then, in the last couple of months, Ali got to meet the guy
on a very famous local poster, that is, famous here in Worcestershire, where Lois and I live. Ali
knew that her old friend Vicky from her
Cardiff University days now had a partner Nick, who was "something in
the tomato trade". But what she didn't know was that Nick's face is
now one of the most iconic and best-known faces in our county.
He's recently been dubbed "The New Face of
Supermarket Aldi", and "Worcestershire's Mr Tomato"
or (as cruder folks call him, due to his "hunky" appearance) "Worcestershire's
Mr Sex", from his iconic appearances on cut-price supermarket Aldi's
billboards and bus-shelter adverts plastered all over the county.
If you live in these parts, you're sure to be very familiar
with the guy already, without even knowing it!
Taylor’s going to be going out on stage this evening around 6:30 pm, and hopefully Ed and the girls will be invited to “post-party drinks” in the “green room” after the performance, so watch this space for more “celebrity titbits” – and remember, you heard it here first!
Incidentally did you notice that at tonight’s concert, our
son-in-law Ed will be "sporting" a copy of Taylor’s own iconic t-shirt carrying
the logo “A Lot Going On At The Moment”. This is the shirt that Taylor herself
is wearing these days, having discarded her old one “Not A Lot Going On At The
Moment” – maybe now that Lois and I are on the brink of vicarious fame ourselves, we
should do the same and throw those old shirts into the bin, where they belong! But tell us what YOU think haha!
In this scene, senior executive Rumbold is trying to dictate a memo to his secretary. It’s winter and the store’s heating isn’t working, so Rumbold is persuaded to reach under his desk and switch on a “blow heater” for the benefit of his secretary to “warm her up a bit”, but it seems to produce an even more warming effect on the building's janitor, Mr Harmon, who pops in with a tea-tray.
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