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Re: So, just how big WAS Derek Nimmo in the Colonies?

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jeremy_keensJan 10, 2008
 

 
To add an australian note, I also have fairly strong memories of Nimmo
being popular out here. And that relatively minor celeb's got big
publicity then - and still do. Minor OS stars/starlets are de rigeur
at our TV 'awards' night, the Logies.

Though the panels australian references aren't always right (was it
derek or clement who wasn't belived that melbourne cupis run on a
tuesday, or something like that; and someone wasn't belived about a
quinella or quaddie

And Spike became an honorary australian after his family moved to Woy Woy.

--- In just-a-minute@..., Dean Bedford <dbedford@...> wrote:
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>
> On Friday, January 11, 2008, at 10:07 AM, lapsedcat wrote:
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> > Question for Dean (who I understand hails from the Antipodes): Was
> > Nimmon as popular a celebrity in NZ & Oz as he made out? I grew up in
> > Greymouth and have vague fuzzy memories of him appearing on a Telethon
> > in the late seventies or early eighties, but that's about it. I better
> > recall the seventies series of The Rag Trade than I do All Gas &
> > Gaiters. Was it just an example of that now dwindling national
> > phenomenon: a Kiwi affection for comedians from the Old Country? (see
> > also: Spike Milligan, Tommy Cooper, and, er, Gorden Kaye)
> >

 
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