Jeremy Beadle was a very knowledgeable man and a credit especially to television, stage, circus entertainment and to charity too, raising many tens of millions of Pounds for good causes. If you ever go to Highgate, in north London, pay a visit to his memorial in Highgate Cemetery. The memorial is a nod to his insatiable fascination of books. He read and collected many thousands of books. He loved them and the knowledge he gained from them. RIP Jeremy Beadle. A wonderful man.
Good to know that thanks. I could never understand the ridicule he got from the press. Always seemed so unfair. He was a fine entertainer and a good man as you say.
@@jeffrey44 haha . No he means he grew up with him, as in like a lot of us were young while this guy was doing his comedy etc and grew older while he was around. Same as I would say I grew up watching Benny Hill and the Two Ronnies etc, not actually visiting them!
They were actually very good cars and more reliable that most of their rivals in their class apart from the Japanese - same goes for the Maestro - of course Jeremy Clarkson at the time had to quip that they must have been diesels because he could not help himself when it came to British cars and slagging them off even when they came out very good such as in being very reliable. They also came out best in their class in the crash tests as well with only the Volvo beating them at the time. We used to work on and service these cars along with many other makes in the garages I worked in and the sills on the Montego and Maestros were much thicker than the sills on all of their rivals at the time although that didnt stop them rusting the same as the rest of them as all cars back then were bad for rust as they were not protected the way they are today.
@@williamwoods8022 /// Montego and Maestro were SHIT ... I had quite a few different models . they had horrible gearchange , poor build , crap engines , bought a 3 year old one that was un believably rusty .. Had a montego turbo . wicked tourque steer ... Anyway there were crap then and thats buy austin , BL went bust cause they made shit cars
Notice, the front wing is dented badly. I worked at the Vauxhall garage that ran Russ' rally Astra, I found him a very humble person, given his obvious talent.
Definitely a talented stunt driver but I don't think I'd have liked to have been a passenger! If I was buying the car I think I'd want brand new tyres. lol
I would have shit myself. In fact, I did but perhaps not in the way you'd imagine. You see, Beadle, who you have to remember was still alive at the time, got me with this trick too. I am not the Jeff who appears in this clip however. My experience was never shown on television for reasons I am about to make clear. On the morning in question, my boss asked me to take a test drive with this guy, Mr Swift. It was all really last minute so no time to think or ask questions, I just got on with it. Of course, in hindsight I should have questioned why my boss who was a snowplough driver was asking me, a council gritter and trainee snowplough driver, to do such a thing. But this was the 80s. It was the time of the IRA and Ted Moult. You didn't question things, you just made the best of it. Anyway, I got in the car. The test drive played out pretty much in the same way as your see in this clip.. By the end, I was pretty sure that Russ Swift was joking me around and I was pretty upset that I had had to cancel my HGV driving test that day to do this 'test drive' instead. It was only when Beadle, who you have to appriciate was still alive, came out of the test centre that I realised what was really going on. I'm afraid I saw red that day. I'm not proud of what I did next but I feel it's worth sharing here all these years later as an interesting behind the scenes anecdote about a much missed television programme. It gives me no pleasure to tell you that as soon as I saw Beadle, I jumped on to the car, first the bonnet and then the roof, pulled down my trousers, squated over the open sunroof and emptied the contents of my bowel in to the car. My dirty protest missed Russ Swift by inches as he realised what was happening and quickly jumped out of the car. The car itself did not come out of the experience so well. The gearstick and footwell were completed covered in my diaretic output. I later learnt that my actions also destroyed one of the hidden cameras. I was led away by my boss and he sat me in the waiting room in the test centre while I calmed down. I don't know how long I was in there for but I remember looking out of the window and watching the crew frantically take the hidden camera and microphone out of the soiled car and put it in to a 'new' one as it seems Beadle had arranged for another victim to arrive just an hour after me. The second car looked a bit damaged, but the dents in the side were nothing compared to the damage I had caused to the first one. No one from the programme ever spoke to me, I don't know if they didn't realise I was still there or just didn't know what to say to me. The only person who spoke to me again was Russ Swift who was surprisingly friendly considering. He was the one that told me about the hidden camera being destroyed. Anyway, I never signed a release form so I did not appear on Beadle's About. I'd like to think that LWT still have the footage but so far my requests to see it have been unsuccessful. I never returned to my job and never took my HGV test. A few months after this, I was sentenced to 14 years in prison for a largely unrelated incident. I often wonder how my life would have been different had Beadle not chosen me that day. I don't hold a grudge though. I'm just pleased he suffered from the effects of polio his whole life and is now dead. RIP Beadle.
They could never make this anymore. The snowflake, woke brigade would have field day. Infringements on their emotions, inflicting stress, public humiliation, not using gender neutral situations ie a Policeman or a woman traffic warden in the set up would be outrageous.Laughing loudly could cause physical harm to those around them….. I could carry on but I think I’ll just watch some more.
They would also need to research everyone’s preferred pronouns who might appear in the background of a scene, to prevent any chance of misgendering. This would require hiring canvassers to hand out preferred pronoun and gender identity forms to passers by to fill in at any entrances and exits to near where they’re filming, in case someone walks in the shot and is referred to.