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Originally Posted by Lex
Funny you should mention 'Love Thy Neighbour' Tozzie!....as I only found out not long ago, that my all-time favourite BB contestant Derek Laud was cast to star in a channel 4 re-make of the programme about 5 years ago!...I'm not sure what happened to it?...if it was axed, or just never shown,...but I certainly knew nothing about it until I happened across it the other week!...but I found a short clip of it on youtube.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7oyBbmyI68
the production quality [as well as Derek's acting] is pretty naff, as you can tell...so I wonder if this bit was filmed and supposed to convince chan 4 bosses to back it?...[and of course probably failed!]
btw Tozzie, I have heard Rudolph Walker speak with pride about Love Thy Neighbour several times!...he boasts that it was the first time on British television that a Black man was equal to a white man!...and who are we to argue with that?
....oh!..and note that Derek and the lady playing his wife were referring to themselves as "Black People!"...I mention this because there are people on this thread [can't remember who now?] that says that it is disrespectful for us to refer to 'black people' as black!...which I found rather confusing! ...but thankfully...you making me look at this clip of Derek again... has cleared it up for me! 
Cheers.
BTW...I come from a couple of miles away from where Charlie Williams grew up, and we are about the same age...but can't say that I knew him before he became a famous footballer/ then comedian....But I did meet him several times in passing later on in life...he was a smashing cheerful bloke, just like he was on the telly!...and though I couldn't say that I knew him too well...I think that you can safely assume that Charlie was proud to be black, and couldn't give a crap what anyone else thought about him, and his act!..and would have hoped that you had fond memories of him |
Oh yes, Charlie was a really happy Chappie, I do have fond memories of him. He had a fabulous smile too. My dad is a pianist and he told me Charlie came to our house on a few occasions. I don't remember how come he came or even him being there as I was too small but my dad tells me Charlie was a really nice man. I'm going to ask my dad how Charlie came to be coming to our house!