Steve Colman: 'I've been to Hull and back'
Wow, what a week – how was yours?
It was weird last Friday going to a reunion for the radio station in Hull where I worked for a year before arriving in the north east.
Sadly my telephone answerer Butch Bruce wasn't there, but Sexy Steve who answered phones when Butch wasn't around was. 25 years on and the boys have become men. Unlike me.
The reunion was held at an hotel on the banks of The Humber underneath the famous bridge and entertainment included Roland Gift from The Fine Young Cannibals and comedy impressionist John Culshaw who I heckled. He was doing his Gordon Brown and I shouted out "Say sorry!". Sort of funny as everyone in the newspapers was after him to apologise over some of the ways that finances have left us crunching. And that was the weekend before the Budget. I think I might have shouted something else at him after that...
Then on Saturday it was off to Wemberlee while Sunderland were beating Hull. I'd decided to drive to the end of the Tube line and have something to eat before going down the four stops for the match. Well Harrow and Wealdstone sounds pretty posh and I was hoping to find an Italian Restaurant for a Spag Bol and then head off... Oh my goodness now, I love my curries, but nearly every eating house was a Ccrry one and I presume on religious grounds they were all proudly displaying vegetarian signs. Not a meat serving place in town! So I went for a pizza.
Sunday I went to see the Falcons last match at home and at 14-0 at half time it was looking good – Shame Bath turned up in the second half and ruined the party 15-14 unbelievable.
Monday night I was at The Theatre Royal to witness some of our greatest actors on stage. Sir Ian McKellern, Patrick Stewart and Simon Callow in the weird and mad, but engrossing "Waiting for Godot". Tickets were being sold on eBay for 180 a time. It goes to London soon and the actors had refused to do any interviews. Shame – no doubt we'll be seeing them all over the tele when they get to London though!
A couple of interviewees we did have on the show this week... Corrine Drewery from Swing Out Sister was lovely – fresh from a trip to Japan and The Phillipine. She was great fun and then mark Little was o the show as mad as ever. You might remember some years ago I was in panto with him at The Sunderland Empire for two years running. We had some fantastic fun on and off the stage so it was great to catch up with him again. He is appearing in a one man show called "Defending the Caveman" from May 7th at The Tyne Theatre. I'll see you there.
Tuesday night was a great night for me and hopefully for you as well. Dancing on Ice with previous winners of the TV show was at the Arena and they asked me back to be a judge again. I thought it was good last year. But the opening sequence which found Jayne Torville and Christopher Dean inside the circular curtain somehow and then they performed Bolero. Wow! And that was just the start.
It was strange for me sitting next to a lady I interviewed a year ago – Ruthie Henshall. I'll tell you a secret – she had a blanket covering her legs behind the desk we were sitting behind. They'd obviously warned her about me!
See you next time.
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