Journalist and TV chat present host Michael Parkinson died this week at 88 and, like most of his ilk, made the odd look in adverts though he by no means seemed particularly snug with it.
He was one in every of Fortunate Generals’ line-up {of professional} Yorkshiremen for Yorkshire Tea, alongside others like Sean Bean and Patrick Stewart, a troublesome herd to corral.
Bean was so excessive he may need been his most well-known creation, Sharpe, about to grab the Napoleonic eagle at Talavera.
Extra revealing of Parky, whose many tributes did him justice though, inevitably, there was some airbrushing, is that this for one in every of his employers, the Sunday Occasions again in good outdated reconstructed 1979. Parky was an excellent cricketer with, it appears, an eye fixed for the ladies. It’s out there on the Historical past of Promoting Belief right here.
A helpful primer for these businesses pondering of going the celeb route at Christmas maybe.
