📸 Sir Cliff Richard Declined Meeting Elvis Presley Because Of His Weight

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Speaking of music, I've got a story about Cliff Richard,
who I have met actually and was one of the
nicest men I've met. Who's wearing a parachute pants suit.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
He likes to wear the parachute stuff.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, this was when I was in England for Fergie
and Andrew's wedding. When I was there with the Midday
Show and we interviewed Cliff Richard. He was so nice
and he didn't have to be. I was a researcher,
meaning that you know, I wasn't sure I wasn't the
person interviewing him, but he was so lovely. But then
I've come across this interview. This is resurfaced. Here's an
interview we did in twenty twenty three on a very

(00:33):
famous morning show called This Morning, an English show, and
so the presenters Allison Hammond, Dermolo Leary and guest host
Sarah Ferguson, who actually was the one I was just
mentioning I was there for her wedding. I didn't go
to the wedding, just so you know, I was there with.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
The media pack. Yeah, who was in the pack me?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Actually was an amazing day because I was there with
the Midday Show and Ray Martin and at one point
we were watching the procession of all the carriages coming
into Wow was it Westminster Rabby? I can't even remember.
I was so excited and I'm standing next to Dame
Edna and Princess Diana comes along in a carriage, sees

(01:13):
Dame Edna, who's standing next to me, and she waves.
It was such a heady time. It was extrame Edna.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Did you say, hey, look she's waving me.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, she's waving meme a pomp pom jumper.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
That's what she and I still have to dress up
in drag.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
But Cliff Richard has gone on to this morning show
in twenty twenty three and he was asked one of
his biggest heroes, Elvis Presley. He was asked if he'd
ever met Elvis, and his answer is quite extraordinary.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Do you ever meet Elvish? No? I did not. I
have one chance through a journalist when I was promoting
Devil Woman in the State. He said, oh, I know
Elvis because he knew that I was influenced, and he said,
would you want to meet him? I said yeah. At
the end of the interview, though, I said can we
put it off? Because he was he put on a

(02:03):
lot of wheat, and I thought, if I'm having a
photograph taken with him and it's going to be hanging
on my refrigerator, he's got to look good, and I
put it off. And of course then he died.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
A little bit heavier and she's heavier.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
The host saying that you shouldn't put off was a
bit heavier. She's a heavy woman. And she said, that's
why I've never come around your house. I'm get she's
just a heavy woman. If I waited till Barry Manilow
was handsome, i'd never get a photo.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
And straight there was that. But the picture Cliffs got
in his houses, he got in his self awareness. It
looks like one of those portraits that gangsters get in
their house, you know, the dead Trump.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
They get all the dead people. They're all together in
one room.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
What's the portrait?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
And as young slim elvers.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yes, slim elves, and Cliff singing next to Elvis.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
You know a lot of people were appalled that Cliff
look at you know, at least if he's got the
picture on his refrigerator, he won't stop him eating won't
stop him overeating. I'm guessing