Ok, wasn't going to blow my trumpet but won an award at a Yorkshire Young Achievers event back in 2000. Gaynor Faye was another winner. Met some of the Emmerdiddle cast and other local celebs. Going to the loo after my 'turn', a lass pulled me and said she was there with her friend, Nell Mc Andrew, who was also up for an award (there were non-celeb winners, like me, in different categories). Innocently, I asked 'Oh, who is she?' (not Nikki Grahame style, I hasten to add!). Friend looked a bit affronted I didn't know of her. In my defence, while I was on the podium getting my bit of glass, I realized my strapless bra had descended to my waist and was 'venturing South'. I was frozen in in terror because Yorkshire telly and the Yorkshire Evening Post had their cameras pointed at me and I was concerned it would be down by my ankles while going down the stairs (I'd lost weight and not taken the underwear situation into account). I was en route to the loo to 'sort things out', hence being a bit distracted.
The lovely Mike Morris (TV presenter, R.I.P.) also called me over for a congratulatory kiss and hug. Couldn't believe he had remembered me from a brief encounter during his breakfast telly days 8 years before. Couldn't exactly say 'Ta all the same, Mike, but I need to sort me bra out'
A year later, I was asked to attend a promo event for the following year's awards and met Lisa Riley, who was very nice to chat to. We were the only women of a similar age there. On getting home that afternoon, the events of 9/11 were unfolding and it's best just to say that the morning disappeared into oblivion. The promo was in the local rag about a week later, but very much scaled-down. I only looked at it once as it made me feel sick.
