Jeremy Beadle was a very knowledgeable man and a credit especially to television, stage, circus entertainment and to charity too, raising many tens of millions of Pounds for good causes. If you ever go to Highgate, in north London, pay a visit to his memorial in Highgate Cemetery. The memorial is a nod to his insatiable fascination of books. He read and collected many thousands of books. He loved them and the knowledge he gained from them. RIP Jeremy Beadle. A wonderful man.
Good to know that thanks. I could never understand the ridicule he got from the press. Always seemed so unfair. He was a fine entertainer and a good man as you say.
@@jeffrey44 haha . No he means he grew up with him, as in like a lot of us were young while this guy was doing his comedy etc and grew older while he was around. Same as I would say I grew up watching Benny Hill and the Two Ronnies etc, not actually visiting them!
Notice, the front wing is dented badly. I worked at the Vauxhall garage that ran Russ' rally Astra, I found him a very humble person, given his obvious talent.
They were actually very good cars and more reliable that most of their rivals in their class apart from the Japanese - same goes for the Maestro - of course Jeremy Clarkson at the time had to quip that they must have been diesels because he could not help himself when it came to British cars and slagging them off even when they came out very good such as in being very reliable. They also came out best in their class in the crash tests as well with only the Volvo beating them at the time. We used to work on and service these cars along with many other makes in the garages I worked in and the sills on the Montego and Maestros were much thicker than the sills on all of their rivals at the time although that didnt stop them rusting the same as the rest of them as all cars back then were bad for rust as they were not protected the way they are today.
@@williamwoods8022 /// Montego and Maestro were SHIT ... I had quite a few different models . they had horrible gearchange , poor build , crap engines , bought a 3 year old one that was un believably rusty .. Had a montego turbo . wicked tourque steer ... Anyway there were crap then and thats buy austin , BL went bust cause they made shit cars
Wow sally anne is lovely but ultimately she,l be the same age as ma mum n dad now😊I’m 41 but seeing this is so familiar to me and feels really good … also I still love the montego😉
Definitely a talented stunt driver but I don't think I'd have liked to have been a passenger! If I was buying the car I think I'd want brand new tyres. lol
I would have shit myself. In fact, I did but perhaps not in the way you'd imagine. You see, Beadle, who you have to remember was still alive at the time, got me with this trick too. I am not the Jeff who appears in this clip however. My experience was never shown on television for reasons I am about to make clear. On the morning in question, my boss asked me to take a test drive with this guy, Mr Swift. It was all really last minute so no time to think or ask questions, I just got on with it. Of course, in hindsight I should have questioned why my boss who was a snowplough driver was asking me, a council gritter and trainee snowplough driver, to do such a thing. But this was the 80s. It was the time of the IRA and Ted Moult. You didn't question things, you just made the best of it. Anyway, I got in the car. The test drive played out pretty much in the same way as your see in this clip.. By the end, I was pretty sure that Russ Swift was joking me around and I was pretty upset that I had had to cancel my HGV driving test that day to do this 'test drive' instead. It was only when Beadle, who you have to appriciate was still alive, came out of the test centre that I realised what was really going on. I'm afraid I saw red that day. I'm not proud of what I did next but I feel it's worth sharing here all these years later as an interesting behind the scenes anecdote about a much missed television programme. It gives me no pleasure to tell you that as soon as I saw Beadle, I jumped on to the car, first the bonnet and then the roof, pulled down my trousers, squated over the open sunroof and emptied the contents of my bowel in to the car. My dirty protest missed Russ Swift by inches as he realised what was happening and quickly jumped out of the car. The car itself did not come out of the experience so well. The gearstick and footwell were completed covered in my diaretic output. I later learnt that my actions also destroyed one of the hidden cameras. I was led away by my boss and he sat me in the waiting room in the test centre while I calmed down. I don't know how long I was in there for but I remember looking out of the window and watching the crew frantically take the hidden camera and microphone out of the soiled car and put it in to a 'new' one as it seems Beadle had arranged for another victim to arrive just an hour after me. The second car looked a bit damaged, but the dents in the side were nothing compared to the damage I had caused to the first one. No one from the programme ever spoke to me, I don't know if they didn't realise I was still there or just didn't know what to say to me. The only person who spoke to me again was Russ Swift who was surprisingly friendly considering. He was the one that told me about the hidden camera being destroyed. Anyway, I never signed a release form so I did not appear on Beadle's About. I'd like to think that LWT still have the footage but so far my requests to see it have been unsuccessful. I never returned to my job and never took my HGV test. A few months after this, I was sentenced to 14 years in prison for a largely unrelated incident. I often wonder how my life would have been different had Beadle not chosen me that day. I don't hold a grudge though. I'm just pleased he suffered from the effects of polio his whole life and is now dead. RIP Beadle.
Today if you don't where a mask you're doing time for healthy and safety violation. Here you could drive a maestro on two wheels in a car park and the whole country is laughing 😮😮
They could never make this anymore. The snowflake, woke brigade would have field day. Infringements on their emotions, inflicting stress, public humiliation, not using gender neutral situations ie a Policeman or a woman traffic warden in the set up would be outrageous.Laughing loudly could cause physical harm to those around them….. I could carry on but I think I’ll just watch some more.
They would also need to research everyone’s preferred pronouns who might appear in the background of a scene, to prevent any chance of misgendering. This would require hiring canvassers to hand out preferred pronoun and gender identity forms to passers by to fill in at any entrances and exits to near where they’re filming, in case someone walks in the shot and is referred to.
Jeremy Beadle was a very knowledgeable man and a credit especially to television, stage, circus entertainment and to charity too, raising many tens of millions of Pounds for good causes.
If you ever go to Highgate, in north London, pay a visit to his memorial in Highgate Cemetery. The memorial is a nod to his insatiable fascination of books. He read and collected many thousands of books. He loved them and the knowledge he gained from them.
RIP Jeremy Beadle. A wonderful man.
Good to know that thanks. I could never understand the ridicule he got from the press. Always seemed so unfair. He was a fine entertainer and a good man as you say.
He was so underrated in my opinion. He was brilliant. 👍👍.
He raised millions . All without touching any kids . Unlike jimmy savil
Love this! Such a shame there is nothing like this on TV these days. Wish I was back in the early 90’s when TV viewing was better.
Xenophobic homophobr
If they had this on now days health and safety be on them like a ton of bricks.
@@glenrevell8523 don't be silly. They had health and safety checks to film this too
Gladiators, Gamesmaster and Crystal Maze. You bet, Beedle... The list is endless.
90s was by far the best decade
I grew up with Beadle.
A great man.
Sadly missed.
How come you lived with him? What was he like in real life?
@@jeffrey44he never said he lived with him!
@@oo0Spyder0oo Even if he only saw him at weekends, I'm sure he has some great stories.
@@jeffrey44 haha . No he means he grew up with him, as in like a lot of us were young while this guy was doing his comedy etc and grew older while he was around. Same as I would say I grew up watching Benny Hill and the Two Ronnies etc, not actually visiting them!
a really nice guy in real life. a true talent.
Who spotted the Montego's prop number plate? LWT at the end. London Weekend Television. 😊
They all loved it. Can you imagine people now, they would be claiming for whiplash and running for their safe spaces.
I was thinking that exact same thing, these were great shows back then, unfortunately Health and Safety and PC brigade finished them off 😢
Good old school fun. Loved Jeremy’s talk radio shows, he was such a nice guy. Missed.
Oh Sally-Anne is so sweet!!!
Just about pulls off the gap tooth thing as her face is gentle and sincere. Some people it can make look sinister.
they say never meet your heroes (Russ Swift) I did and what a great guy he is and a year later met his son top bloke too.
Rip Jermy
Always and everyone’s favourite.
His radio show on LBC was one of the best I’ve ever heard much preferred him on radio to tv
saw him and his son doing stunts. the young lad had his own mini mini . made from a go kart, probably. was great to watch
I remember these shows first time around and Russ Swifts adverts for Austin Rover.
Back in 2000 I did a skidpan course in the car used in the advert. It had never been on the open road.
I had a Montego, couldn’t get it to go on 4 wheels, let alone 2
First guy was gangsta until it went on two wheeels 😂
I met russ swift in Jakarta in 2013, an absolute gent!
Loves this show it was so funny.
There was a small bl dealer in our town, I saw Russel Swift do the 2-wheel trick along their showroom front. Brilliant.
Happy days. Good old Jeremy. Bless him.
Jeremy deserves a big hand 🤚
The LWT numberplate is not lost on me.
Good ol Saturday evening viewing
It’s a set up. Car window is open then closed when driving
fantastic! never seen this b4
I think the Russ rolled the Montego before doing the 2 wheel stunt before 3:54 as the front wing got damaged and the indicator lens cracked
More likely he messed up the handbrake turn
@@bid84 He's only human but also very good and still doing it to this day. He probably boosted the sales of Montego's a tad by parallel parking them.
Sick of saturday night tv now with long in the tooth talent shows.....itv should bring back stuff like this to provide some much needed laughs......
Notice, the front wing is dented badly.
I worked at the Vauxhall garage that ran Russ' rally Astra, I found him a very humble person, given his obvious talent.
I LOVE AUSTN ROVER MONTEGO AND BEADLES ABOUT TEST DRIVE RUSS SWIFT
The second passenger is an actor isn’t he? I’m sure he played a consultant in The Office
he looks like Tom Goodman Hill but Tom GH was only about 20 then
No car damage at 3:35 but dented wing and bonnet at 3:54 ?
The wheel trims disappeared when damaged and reappeared too?
he is some driver id love it
Legend.
Amazed a Austin Montego stayed together that long. Must have been a one off special!
They were actually very good cars and more reliable that most of their rivals in their class apart from the Japanese - same goes for the Maestro - of course Jeremy Clarkson at the time had to quip that they must have been diesels because he could not help himself when it came to British cars and slagging them off even when they came out very good such as in being very reliable. They also came out best in their class in the crash tests as well with only the Volvo beating them at the time. We used to work on and service these cars along with many other makes in the garages I worked in and the sills on the Montego and Maestros were much thicker than the sills on all of their rivals at the time although that didnt stop them rusting the same as the rest of them as all cars back then were bad for rust as they were not protected the way they are today.
@@williamwoods8022 /// Montego and Maestro were SHIT ... I had quite a few different models . they had horrible gearchange , poor build , crap engines , bought a 3 year old one that was un believably rusty .. Had a montego turbo . wicked tourque steer ... Anyway there were crap then and thats buy austin , BL went bust cause they made shit cars
I had an Austin Maestro and I loved it, great car and never broke down on me once, I certainly did some miles in it.
Jeremy didn't plan the whole joke, but he did have a small hand in it!
They ALL missed the LWT PLATE?!?!..
Good old fashioned fun.
WHAT IS YEARS
Russ Swift by name, Swift by Nature! ;)
anyone got the car mot drop?
Sally-Ann is fucking tidy!
God, she was beautiful.
sally anne what a dream!
good honest fun, lost of today
Russ swift did a challenge on you bet.....when tv was great
Wow sally anne is lovely but ultimately she,l be the same age as ma mum n dad now😊I’m 41 but seeing this is so familiar to me and feels really good … also I still love the montego😉
Legend of guy
Fantastic,,,, Sally Ann looks incredibly like Olivia Newton John back in the day
Ohh she banged her head there. You wouldn’t get away with that now.
wow
@3:43> She really hit Her head HARD there!!😫
1:55
Uber should hire him
They had to hoover up the seat where she had been sitting
Rodney Trotter with him then in the car haha
sally anne is gorgeous.
2:44 1st bloke trying to stay calm & all casual about it..til this point !! ...Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiittt.
ROVER GROUP
@3:59 front right wing clearly damaged and indicator lense missing. @4:00 all is well 😂
Look like it was damaged with the 2:47, so i am wondering if it was another car used for the 2 wheel stunts.
The thumb nail looks like Paddy McGuire and his son Mickey from Shameless.
He's crashed at some stage haha!!
He drove a Russ bucket.
haaaaa, i see what you did there
Is it me or is the blondie a dead ringer for olivia newton john
Its you .
it's you...
I concur. It's just you.
More like a young Ulrika Jonsson
That old montego was clean at the start and had rusty bits by the end of the clip
the reg London week television-
Yeah that's normal for a montego....
Definitely a talented stunt driver but I don't think I'd have liked to have been a passenger! If I was buying the car I think I'd want brand new tyres. lol
Bet that blonde is still good looking today damn hot!
I would have shit myself. In fact, I did but perhaps not in the way you'd imagine. You see, Beadle, who you have to remember was still alive at the time, got me with this trick too. I am not the Jeff who appears in this clip however. My experience was never shown on television for reasons I am about to make clear.
On the morning in question, my boss asked me to take a test drive with this guy, Mr Swift. It was all really last minute so no time to think or ask questions, I just got on with it. Of course, in hindsight I should have questioned why my boss who was a snowplough driver was asking me, a council gritter and trainee snowplough driver, to do such a thing. But this was the 80s. It was the time of the IRA and Ted Moult. You didn't question things, you just made the best of it.
Anyway, I got in the car. The test drive played out pretty much in the same way as your see in this clip.. By the end, I was pretty sure that Russ Swift was joking me around and I was pretty upset that I had had to cancel my HGV driving test that day to do this 'test drive' instead. It was only when Beadle, who you have to appriciate was still alive, came out of the test centre that I realised what was really going on.
I'm afraid I saw red that day. I'm not proud of what I did next but I feel it's worth sharing here all these years later as an interesting behind the scenes anecdote about a much missed television programme.
It gives me no pleasure to tell you that as soon as I saw Beadle, I jumped on to the car, first the bonnet and then the roof, pulled down my trousers, squated over the open sunroof and emptied the contents of my bowel in to the car. My dirty protest missed Russ Swift by inches as he realised what was happening and quickly jumped out of the car. The car itself did not come out of the experience so well. The gearstick and footwell were completed covered in my diaretic output. I later learnt that my actions also destroyed one of the hidden cameras.
I was led away by my boss and he sat me in the waiting room in the test centre while I calmed down. I don't know how long I was in there for but I remember looking out of the window and watching the crew frantically take the hidden camera and microphone out of the soiled car and put it in to a 'new' one as it seems Beadle had arranged for another victim to arrive just an hour after me. The second car looked a bit damaged, but the dents in the side were nothing compared to the damage I had caused to the first one.
No one from the programme ever spoke to me, I don't know if they didn't realise I was still there or just didn't know what to say to me. The only person who spoke to me again was Russ Swift who was surprisingly friendly considering. He was the one that told me about the hidden camera being destroyed. Anyway, I never signed a release form so I did not appear on Beadle's About. I'd like to think that LWT still have the footage but so far my requests to see it have been unsuccessful.
I never returned to my job and never took my HGV test. A few months after this, I was sentenced to 14 years in prison for a largely unrelated incident.
I often wonder how my life would have been different had Beadle not chosen me that day. I don't hold a grudge though. I'm just pleased he suffered from the effects of polio his whole life and is now dead.
RIP Beadle.
jeffrey44 best UA-cam comment I have ever read.
When Saturday night television was great and entertaining for all the family 👍 Not like the desperate crap they put on now......
Don’t make em like this anymore
it was all fake reactions at 5:04 you can see stuff attached to the front of the car when its on its side then magicly it disappears in the next shot.
yeah i am not really sure ifs the same car doing the stunts either, Because there is damage on the wing during the 1st run,
Were there no dentists in the 80's?
Today if you don't where a mask you're doing time for healthy and safety violation. Here you could drive a maestro on two wheels in a car park and the whole country is laughing 😮😮
They could never make this anymore. The snowflake, woke brigade would have field day. Infringements on their emotions, inflicting stress, public humiliation, not using gender neutral situations ie a Policeman or a woman traffic warden in the set up would be outrageous.Laughing loudly could cause physical harm to those around them….. I could carry on but I think I’ll just watch some more.
They would also need to research everyone’s preferred pronouns who might appear in the background of a scene, to prevent any chance of misgendering. This would require hiring canvassers to hand out preferred pronoun and gender identity forms to passers by to fill in at any entrances and exits to near where they’re filming, in case someone walks in the shot and is referred to.
It's so funny, let's go Brandon.
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F DT
3.42 the womans head smashes against the window :-(
He's. Dead. Leave. Out. Please, it. Turns. My. Stomach. Bringing. Old. Stuff. Back. They. Are. Tired. Videos. Ok
Not a good attitude 😠😠
Slightly strange Tweet, Jean. Hope you’re ok - like, mentally.
A lot of programmes feature people who have passed on but that doesn't mean they are less funny 😊lighten up women 😊
God, bet you're fun at parties.
Can't stand that aul Beatles about
Couldn't stand that aul Beatles about