That her nickname for husband david was goldenballs in 2001. 0ur arts correspondent David Sillito looks back at his life. Dont you get fed up of each other . Oh, yes, yes. I call him golden balls, you know, now. Did you ever say, you dirty rat . Never. Jimmy cagney. Orson welles. Jimmy stewart. These were distant, mysterious screen gods until parkinson brought them into your living room. The fact is that youre a crowd puller and frazier s not, is he . Why is that . Well, number one, hes ugly. His interviews with muhammad ali were unmissable. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class. He cannot talk. And who told him he could sing . But of all those 2,000 or so guests, one always haunted him. I interviewed everybody from Henry Kissinger to Billy Connolly to james cagney to dame edith evans, all those people. And im only remembered for one thing, i was attacked by a sodding emu. Hes not aggresive Rod Hull And Emu Rather punctured the suave tv persona. I knew we should never have booked it.
Such as david bowie and paul mccartney. And in 2001 Victoria Beckham let slip that her nickname for husband david was goldenballs. 0ur arts correspondent David Sillito looks back at his life. Dont you get fed up of each other . Oh, yes, yes. I call him golden balls, you know, now. Did you ever say, you dirty rat . Never. Jimmy cagney. Orson welles. Jimmy stewart. These were distant, mysterious screen gods until parkinson brought them into your living room. The fact is that youre a crowd puller and frazier s not, is he . Why is that . Well, number one, hes ugly. His interviews with muhammad ali were unmissable. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class. He cannot talk. And who told him he could sing . But of all those 2000 or so guests, one always haunted him. I interviewed everybody from Henry Kissinger to Billy Connolly to james cagney to dame edith evans, all those people. And im only remembered for one thing, i was attacked by a sodding emu. Hes not aggresive Rod Hull And Emu Rather p
And then reviving the parkinson show. he s a practicing homeopath, as a matter of fact. there were moments, but it was nowjust one of many chat shows on an interview circuit. pretty sure that s what he said he wanted. ..where everyone seemed to have something to sell. right. play forward. well played. well done. 0ffscreen, he loved his cricket, always a proud yorkshireman. one day, there ll be some research into the benefit of this magnificent food, soul food for yorkshiremen. and at the end, it was his father s very yorkshire judgment that came to mind. just before he died, he said to me, he said, you ve done well and you ve met some big stars. i said, i had. he said, you made a bob or too without breaking sweat. i admitted that was also true. good lad, he said, but think on. it s not like playing for yorkshire, is it? it wasn t. but once or twice, it got pretty damn close. goodnight.
Do you find, in fact, that this what could be best described as your equipment, in fact, hinders you, perhaps in that pursuit? you re wary of journalists. i mean, does it give you an insight into what they re after? not that i m wary of them. yes. you are wary ofjournalists. you re wary of me. you re wary of the interview. you don t like being interviewed. you can see it in the way that you sit and the way you are that you don t. in other words, if you were me, what would you do now? well, just wrap it up. in the eighties, he was briefly part of the ill fated gang of five who launched itv s new breakfast programme before returning to the bbc to present desert island discs and a programme on radio 2. and then reviving the parkinson show. he s a practicing homeopath, as a matter of fact. there were moments, but it was now just one of many chat shows on an interview circuit. pretty sure that s what he said he wanted.
In fact, hinders you, perhaps in that pursuit? you re wary of journalists. i mean, does it give you an insight into what they re after? not that i m wary of them. yes. you are wary ofjournalists. you re wary of me. you re wary of the interview. you don t like being interviewed. you can see it in the way that you sit and the way you are that you don t. in other words, if you were me, what would you do now? well, just wrap it up. in the eighties, he was briefly part of the ill fated gang of five who launched itv s new breakfast programme before returning to the bbc to present desert island discs and a programme on radio 2. and then reviving the parkinson show. he s a practicing homeopath, as a matter of fact. there were moments, but it was now just one of many chat shows on an interview circuit. pretty sure that s what he said he wanted. ..where everyone seemed