Getting my full Equity card as a professional performer.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
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b. 1950
Born in Nottingham, Su Pollard, 75, began singing in pubs and working men’s clubs at the age of 16 and appeared on Opportunity Knocks in 1974. She went on to play Peggy in the BBC television sitcom Hi-de-Hi! from 1980 to 1988. In 1986 she had a UK hit single with Starting Together. She has appeared in more than 35 stage plays and musicals and, in 2023, received the UK Pantomime Association’s outstanding achievement award. Her Still Fully Charged tour returns next month. She lives in London.
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Getting my full Equity card as a professional performer.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
Dying too young, and spiders.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
I don’t say that I’m perfect but there’s nothing that I deplore.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
People who aren’t kind enough.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
Gloria Hunniford’s wedding at Hever Castle 20-odd years ago. We had a lovely buffet and a few drinks and then I had to get a cab back to the train station. I said to the driver: “I’m ever so sorry, but I’m not going to be able to hang on till I get to the train. Could you possibly take me down this alleyway?” He said: “Yes, of course.” As I prepared myself to go “to the ladies”, this police car came along and the policeman said: “Hi-de-Hi!”
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
A hand-painted beaded dress from New York. It weighs about 16lb and cost me £4,000, 30 years ago.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
Kind, fun and professional.
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Like you’ve got no other thought in your head.
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For bringing positivity to people.
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Stay out of other people’s business.
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We drift off to a beautiful place where we live a better, fuller life than what we’ve left.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
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