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Nostalgia Hello
again campers!
There'll be sauce
aplenty when Dale Winton reunites the Hi-De-Hi!
gang ...
Nostalgia, celebs, tears
and laughter... what more could you want? Each
morning this week, Dale Winton presents Stars
Reunited, hosting get-togethers for the casts of
five much-loved TV shows.
Of course, being Dale,
he'll want to know all the behind-the-scenes
gossip from each programme. He'll also be asking
the stars what they're been up to now, finding
out about their funniest and most embarrassing
memories, and surprising each cast with a mystery
guest.
All Creatures Great And
Small, Nationwide, Blue Peter and Tomorrow's
World all feature in the series, but Tuesday's
show should provide a saucy highlight when Dale
says a big, camp hello to the stars of Hi-De-Hi!,
the nostalgic Fifties-set comedy that ran on
screen from 1981 to 1988 and followed the goings-on
at Maplin's holiday camp. We checked out the
stars Dale will be meeting...
RUTH MADOC:
Played: Formidable but lovelorn organiser Gladys
Pugh, who greeted guests with her trademark
'Hello Campers'.
After Hi-De-Hi!: TV
roles have included BBC drama Oliver's Travels
and Jack Of Hearts and she has been on stage in
Pickwick: The Musical and 42nd Street. In 2001,
she played widow Mrs Hans in the film Very Annie
Mary. Lives in Cambridgeshire with her second
husband and has two children.
She says: 'During Hi-De-Hi!
my mother, a hospital matron, made sure I didn't
get big-headed. She'd make me empty the bedpans
whenever she could!'
PAUL SHANE:
Played: Ted Bovis, the gruff, beer-swilling comic
with the teddy-boy quiff.
After Hi-De-Hi!:
Comic roles in You Rang, M'Lord? and Oh, Doctor
Beeching!, which both featured Su Pollard and
Jeffrey Holland (Hi-De-Hi's Spike). He has
appeared in Holby City, as Stan Ashleigh, and the
2002 movie Heartlands. Paul lives in Rotherham. A
father to three daughters, his wife, Dory, died
two years ago.
He says: 'I look a
lot different since I played Ted - I've lost four
stone. I've got a one-pack now; It's not healthy
to haul all that weight about at my age.'
SU POLLARD:
PLayed: Peggy Ollerenshaw, the downtrodden chalet
maid who desperately wanted to become a
yellowcoat.
After Hi-De-Hi!:
Played parlourmaid Ivy Teasdale in You Rang,
M'Lord? and ticket-clerk Ethel in Oh, Doctor
Beeching! She has done stand-up comedy with The
Su Pollard Show and has appeared in countless
pantos including Pinocchio and Aladdin. Su's
single and lives in north London.
She says: 'Hi-De-Hi!
made me - I've not looked back since. Before I
got the part I'd just lost at Opportunity Knocks
to a singing Jack Russell!'
NIKKI KELLY: Played:
Sylvia, the gravel-voiced, leggy blonds temptress
with the shortest shorts at Maplin's.
After Hi-De-Hi!:
Mainly stage work - most recently as the Wicked
Witch in Wizard Of Oz and Lady Honoria Dedlock in
Dickens' Bleak House. Also appeared as Janie in
The Upper Hand. She's currently working on a sci-fi
film called Messages. Nikki's single and lives in
Hertfordshire.
She says: 'Shorts
weren't fashionable for the Fifties setting of Hi-De-Hi!
I just liked the way they looked. Each year I let
them get shorter until they almost disappeared!'
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