The wonderful Floella was a stand-in Countdown host a few months ago – she did a brilliant job, just as you’d expect of her. She even threw in a few Playschool jokes for those of us of a certain age!
Vorderman was last sighted going round and round and round on Michael Mcintyre's The Wheel the other week.
Did you see that bit where the arrow landed on her for her ‘expert’ category – aviation – and how phenomenally smug and patronising she was towards the contestant? I was cringeing for her.
Yes, Elaine Paige is still active on Radio 2 every Sunday – but I think PP was asking about Julie Covington and contrasting her disappearance from the public eye with Elaine and Barbara Dickson, who are still very much in it.
I really shouldn’t be ageist as I am no spring chicken but I was imagining him as Shaky Stevens.
He’s 75 now, but interestingly on that same subject, he was the youngest of 11 children. His oldest sibling was born in the 1920s and by the time he (Shaky/Mike) was born, some of his siblings were already married with kids!
I’m sure I also remember reading that, when he first became famous, he didn’t speak any English at all and presumably learned the lyrics phonetically – English-language pop music obviously having a far bigger market than Welsh..
I would also add:
Duffy
Gok Wan
Dave Spikey (Peter Kay and {Paddy McGuinness are still very much around, but I think Dave probably enjoyed the experience – and money, I’m sure – of fame, but was always naturally introverted and didn’t need to ‘feed of it’ in the same way}
I agree that many of these celebs that some of us remember from our childhoods will be elderly now and, even where still physically and mentally active, are probably happy to be seeing out their remaining years and enjoying their money in private. They’ve aged, just like the rest of us have! I’m reminded of that scene in Still Game where Jack and Victor go to Central Station for the first time in decades and Jack ponders where the auld fella who used to be there all the time (busking iirc) in the 1970s might be and what he might be up to now!!