Lynda Bellingham

I'm not sure which.

Do you know Linda Bellingham there is probably not much older than your oldest son, I bet.

Probably not.

Scary thought.

See, I remember sitting next to a very famous film star, and I was very excited about this.

It was a friend of mine, lovely Linda Bellingham, who had invited this chap.

And she said, "Ugh, he's just invited himself to my lunch.

He heard through somebody else that I was having one, and he's just invited himself." And I went, "Oh, excuse me." [coughs]

And one of my favourite sitcoms, Honey When I Laugh, and then he was in the Beidebeck tapes as well.

And he did some sitcoms as well, where he was in later sitcoms as well, wasn't he? Oh, Linda Bellingham, Rings of Bell.

Linda Bellingham, yeah, something about...

A couple getting back together after being together as a teenager, and then both their spouses have passed away, and Julie Sewell is the daughter or something.

I was

And it was the one that seemed to last forever.

And it was always it always seemed to be the late great Linda Bellingham in a very complicated hat.

That was my earliest sort of glimpses.

I thought, what is this thing that I keep seeing? And I bring up the hotel, actually, because if you're a child and you're about to be launched into the world of Doctor Who, a hotel is a weird version of a TARDIS because we were living in it.

Eventually we were stabilized in a single, in the same room, us children.

And then we eventually moved out.

But for those, the period where I'm seeing Linda Bellingham in a hat and wondering what that's all about, I'm living in this sort of TARDIS house, essentially.

Yeah.