EXCLUSIVE: The Gone Fishing star just lately helped his well-known good friend launch a brand new wine.
Paul Whitehouse helped his good friend Roger Taylor launch his new wine (Picture: Provided)
Comedy legend Paul Whitehouse has opened up on his shock friendship with Queen drummer Roger Taylor, as he was roped in to assist launch the star’s new wine. The 68-year-old Gone Fishing star revealed the pair have been mates for a very long time, which is how he was talked into donning a tuxedo to host a Q&A with the music legend on the intimate occasion in London’s Covent Backyard Resort forward of the drink touchdown in Sainsburys and Waitrose on Might 5.
Talking solely to Specific.co.uk he mentioned: “I do know Roger of outdated, and we have really had the occasional glass of wine collectively earlier than or after a gig after I’ve been to see him.” Nonetheless the star admitted he wasn’t positive how the night would go as he began it in a personality however the pair quickly slipped into their simple banter. “Clearly, I began taking part in a drunk. I had some questions – smart questions – however we simply opened ourselves up and stored it a bit extra entertaining. I had no concept it was gonna go but it surely was enjoyable.”
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Funnyman Paul Whitehouse has opened up on his friendship with Queen’s Roger Taylor (Picture: Getty)
Opening up on their friendship he recalled a second at a soccer match. “As soon as, weirdly in Milan, when Spurs misplaced 4-3 to Inter Milan, the primary leg of the UEFA Champions League, and Gareth Bale emerged on the world stage I did not know that Roger was within the crowd that night time, as was I.
“He did not know I used to be there. I went, like an actual particular person. He in all probability was helicoptered in,” he quipped. “And he despatched me a textual content and he was across the nook!”
“So we’ve got met up so many instances,” Paul recalled. “Sarina, his spouse, could be very near our producer, on Solely Fools and Horses [The Musical]. So our paths have crossed many instances, and I’ve seen Queen dwell a number of instances.
Requested if his unlikely good friend had seen the stage present primarily based on the beloved lengthy working BBC present, Paul responded: “I believe he got here to one of many rehearsals, really.”
Talking in regards to the stage adaptation which launched in 2019, Paul admitted he had been nervous on the prospect of revitalising the characters. “It was slightly bit nerve wracking,” he mentioned. “However as a result of John Sullivan’s son, Jim was a co author with me, it sort of legitimised it.
“And likewise as a result of John Sullivan had began it – he’d written one music as a result of he needed to do an Solely Fools is musical – it wasn’t like we had been going, ‘I’ve acquired an ideal concept, you already know, the vanity of that.
“It was John’s sort of final challenge, earlier than he was tragically taken away from us. So it sort of gave it that legitimacy.”
Solely Fools and Horses Creator John Sullivan died on the age of 64 in April 2011.
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