Crikey
I was just watching another perfeckly crafted episode of Grange Hill there, while enjoying a refreshing fajita, and who should pop up as Pogo Patterson's reluctant love intrest, but Sharon out of EastEnders! Also known as TV's glamorous Letitia Dean.
Grange Hill is one of those programmes like Casualty which everybody who went to stage school in Britain has to be in at some point. Or it was as apparently it is cancelled now, that is OK as I do not know anything that happened after about 1990 anyway. That is as true of real life as it is of Grange Hill.
Of course everyone else out of Grange Hill later went on to EastEnders as well eg my lookalike Todd Carty, Susan Tully, and some other people.
It is mad when you use the power of the modern Internet to investergate what has happened to people out of Grange Hill. Ziggy Greaves is a playwright, Zammo Maguire owns one of those little shops that mends shoes and cuts keys, and is fat, and gruff PE teacher Mr Baxter is a successful novelist.
Fay Lucas's son was the scary child with a gas mask out of Dr Who, Claire Scott posed nude for a magazine, released a bad cover of 'The Locomotion', and now works in a shoe shop. Pogo Patterson is a pub landlord. Gonch Gardner was the president of my student union when I was at UEA, where he continued to raise money by ridickulous business schemes eg selling toast in the playground. That does not work at university, as students cannot afford luxury food like toast.
Mr Bronson of course was in The Empire Strikes Back, where he frightened Imperial storm troopers by shouting 'YOU BOY!' at them. And his arch-nemesis Danny Kendall is now head of communications for AOL, if that still exists.
So if anyone laughs at you for watching bad 1980s TV eg classic era Grange Hill, Blake's 7 ekcetera, do not listen to them as it is good.
Grange Hill is one of those programmes like Casualty which everybody who went to stage school in Britain has to be in at some point. Or it was as apparently it is cancelled now, that is OK as I do not know anything that happened after about 1990 anyway. That is as true of real life as it is of Grange Hill.
Of course everyone else out of Grange Hill later went on to EastEnders as well eg my lookalike Todd Carty, Susan Tully, and some other people.
It is mad when you use the power of the modern Internet to investergate what has happened to people out of Grange Hill. Ziggy Greaves is a playwright, Zammo Maguire owns one of those little shops that mends shoes and cuts keys, and is fat, and gruff PE teacher Mr Baxter is a successful novelist.
Fay Lucas's son was the scary child with a gas mask out of Dr Who, Claire Scott posed nude for a magazine, released a bad cover of 'The Locomotion', and now works in a shoe shop. Pogo Patterson is a pub landlord. Gonch Gardner was the president of my student union when I was at UEA, where he continued to raise money by ridickulous business schemes eg selling toast in the playground. That does not work at university, as students cannot afford luxury food like toast.
Mr Bronson of course was in The Empire Strikes Back, where he frightened Imperial storm troopers by shouting 'YOU BOY!' at them. And his arch-nemesis Danny Kendall is now head of communications for AOL, if that still exists.
So if anyone laughs at you for watching bad 1980s TV eg classic era Grange Hill, Blake's 7 ekcetera, do not listen to them as it is good.