Fiona Allen had just taken a nasty knock to the head when her future husband asked her out for a drink. Michael Parkinson – son of the late Yorkshire-born broadcaster of the same name – was working on Smack The Pony at the time, the sketch comedy show fronted by Allen, alongside Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips.
“I kept looking at him and he kept looking at me,” Allen says, “and in the end the director went for god’s sake just ask her out and stop driving us all mad. There was a bit in the show where naked men would run past us and we’d all faint and someone had put the crash mat not quite in the right place so my head missed it and cracked onto the concrete. Michael said I’ll take you back to base because I was a bit starry-eyed.
There was a moment, aged seven or eight, when she decided she would become an actress, she recalls. “I remember being sat in my bedroom, listening to music and thinking about what I should do when I grow up...I loved singing but this tune was playing and the person’s voice was amazing and I thought I can’t sing like that, I’ll never be as good, what else can I do? I know, I’ll be an actress and I just stuck to it.
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