23.08.2021:
Oh And Another Thing... An Evening With
Su Pollard
Su
is hitting the road soon with Harpy,
but she is also touring again in early
2022 with Oh... and another thing...
An Evening Wth Su Pollard.
Su
is about to embark on her first ever
“An Evening with Su Pollard”
tour where she will talk about her
exceptional career, which is sure to be
filled with laughter and a few tears.
Su will also undertake a Q & A with
the audience.
Selected venues will also
have 'Meet and Greet' ticket options. See
the theatre websites for further details.
Su
guested on Carla Greene's show on BBC
Radio Lincolnshire last Thursday.
• Listen to the show at BBC Sounds.
It's available for around three weeks.
23.08.2021:
BBC News: Hi-de-Hi! Fans Display
Memorabilia
Harwich
Museum: Hi-de-Hi! fans display
memorabilia for first time
A couple who have been collecting
memorabilia related to the BBC comedy
Hi-de-Hi! for years have put it on
display for the first time in a new
museum in the town where it was filmed.
The 1980s TV show was filmed at a holiday
camp near Harwich, Essex. A display
featuring the iconic yellow coats, as
worn by Su Pollard and Paul Shane, forms
part of Harwich Museum.
Tony Tarran, who has loaned the items to
the museum, said it was
"brilliant" to be able to put
them on show. Together with his wife
Joanne, he has collected the memorabilia
over the past 15 years and it had
previously been stored in their spare
room.
Su
Pollard interview: ‘My worst travel
experience was the pilot announcing our
plane was on fire’
The actress tried
chicken-claw soup in Hong Kong and rode
horses on a Nevada ranch.
My first trip abroad was at the age of 18
and it was a complete disaster. I went to
Greece with my best friend, Julie, and
before we got on the plane they called
our names over the Tannoy. At the desk
they asked why we hadn’t checked in.
We had assumed we would simply take our
luggage on the plane when our flight was
called, which was embarrassing. The other
passengers all glared at us when we
boarded.
• NB: Continue
reading at The Times. A
subscription to The Times is required to
read this interview past the preview.
17.08.2021:
Celebrity Masterchef at BBC iPlayer +
More Press!
Here are some further press
reports on Su appearing on the show:
• Entertainment
Daily: Celebrity MasterChef
2021: Fans jubilant as Bez and Su make
the semi-finals - There are calls for the
duo to have their own show - Continue
reading...
• Yahoo: Celebrity
MasterChef's Bez and Su Pollard amuse
viewers - Celebrity MasterChef viewers
were enjoying the entertaining antics of
Su Pollard and Bez in the kitchen last
night as the new series launched on BBC
One - Continue
reading...
17.08.2021:
Su On TV: Celebrity Masterchef
Su's first week on Celebrity
Masterchef is being shown again,
beginning next week, on the BBC2 late
night Signed programmes.
Celebrity
Masterchef: BBC2: Thursday 26th August:
1.55am Series 16, Episode 1. (Audio
Described, Signed, Repeat, Subtitles) Su
Pollard, Rita Simons, Duncan James, Bez
and Munya Chawawa compete in the first
heat of the celebrity contest, hosted by
John Torode and Gregg Wallace. The first
challenge is a new round, Under The
Cloche, in which each contestant must
prepare a meal showcasing a different
mystery ingredient. Afterwards, they must
prepare a popular street food dish from
Denmark, and come up with something
special for a dinner party.
17.08.2021:
Su On TV: Hi-de-Hi!
A reminder that the Drama
channel is currently airing episodes of Hi-de-Hi!
13.08.2021:
Harpy - 2021 UK Tour
Su
is going on tour... with Harpy.
The one-woman play she premiered at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe, to great
reviews, in August 2018
Tickets for all of the, rescheduled,
dates are now on sale.
Su and Harpy are visiting:
Portsmouth, Hull, Horsham, Margate,
Maidstone, Malvern, Durham,
Wellingborough, Sale, Buxton, Bury St
Edmunds, Middlesborough, Alnwick,
Musselborough, Blackpool, Leicester and
Taunton.
• Please click below for further
info and ticket booking links.
13.08.2021:
What To Watch: Hi-de-Hi! - Ultimate Guide
Hi-de-Hi!'
Our ultimate guide to the classic holiday
camp comedy
Everything you need to know about
Hi-de-Hi! now showing on BritBox...
Hello Campers! Hi-de-Hi!, the classic
1980s BAFTA-winning sitcom from
Dad’s Army creators Jimmy Perry and
David Croft, is arriving on Britbox in
the UK on March 11, with all nine series
ready to binge watch and bring some
laughs. So we’ve decided to take a
look at the famous holiday camp comedy!
Set in 1959 at the fictional holiday camp
of Maplins in Crimpton-on-Sea, the hit
show follows the antics of the
camp’s Yellowcoats, most of them
struggling actors or has-beens, as they
try to entertain a stream of British
holidaymakers. To foster some enthusiasm
at the resort the staff would shout
"Hi-de-Hi!" at the campers to
which they'd expect the shouted response
"Ho-de-Ho!". This was typical
of most British holiday camps back in the
day!
• Continue reading at What To
Watch.
NB. Su is interviewed about her Hi-de-Hi!
memories as part of this new feature.
11.08.2021:
Press: Radio Times / Good Housekeeping +
• Radio
Times: Who is Su Pollard? Meet
the Celebrity MasterChef 2021 contestant
and actress - Say a big Hi-de-Hi! to one
of this year's hopefuls - Continue
reading...
• My London: BBC
Celebrity Masterchef: Su Pollard’s
life off camera from vowing never to
marry again to dancing until 4am at 71 -
Su Pollard has no plans of slowing down
any time soon - Continue
reading...
• Good Housekeeping:
Celebrity MasterChef's Bez and Su Pollard
amuse viewers - Bez had a lovely nickname
for anchovies - Continue
reading...
• Nottingham Post:
Nottingham comedy legend Su Pollard to
star in TV's Celebrity MasterChef - She
says it was 'stressful' - Continue
reading...
• The Sun: Su's
That Girl - How old is Su Pollard? The
actress and singer is a national treasure
thanks to her roles in some classic
sitcoms - Continue
reading...
• Daily Star:
Celebrity MasterChef fans in hysterics as
Su Pollard causes mayhem in the kitchen -
Celebrity MasterChef fans have been left
in stitches after the watched Su Pollard
poorly cook pasta carbonara but
miraculously found herself in the quarter
finals - Continue
reading...
11.08.2021:
Su On TV: The Chase - Celebrity Special
The Chase -
Celebrity Special: Sunday 15th August:
4.50pm
Bradley Walsh presents as celebrity
contestants Su Pollard, Jordan Banjo, AJ
Odudu and Jonathan Ross pit their wits
against one of the ruthless Chasers in
the hope of winning a potential prize pot
worth thousands of pounds. They must work
as a team and play strategically to
answer general knowledge questions
against the clock and race down the game
board to the exit without being caught.
08.08.2021:
Press: New Su Interview
Su
Pollard vows never to get married again
as she's much happier dating at 71
Actress Su Pollard is adamant she's
done with settling down and she's much
rather 'entertain gentlemen' a couple of
nights a week as long as they don't leave
too much of their stuff at her place
Actress Su Pollard is not a woman who
does things quietly. She never has been.
Since bursting on to our TV screens in
1980 as ditzy chalet girl Peggy
Ollerenshaw in BBC TV series Hi-De-Hi!,
about the lives of a group of
holiday-camp entertainers, she’s
been known for her over-the-top outfits,
effervescent personality and ability to
make people smile.
Now 71, she looks fantastic and has every
intention of growing old disgracefully.
Her zest for life is infectious and she
loves trying new things. The latest is
cooking. But rather than simply
attempting a few dishes at her North
London home, she’s signed up for the
new series of Celebrity MasterChef.
Here, she gives us a flavour of how it
went and explains why she hopes to be
gadding around the West End until
she’s at least 100…
Su guested on Claudia
Winkleman's BBC Radio 2 show yesterday.
The show was guest hosted by Rob Beckett.
Rob
Beckett presents the ultimate celebration
of Saturday. Bringing a razor-sharp wit
and occasional chaos to everything from
life’s little wins to the biggest
celebrity guests, which this week include
Lutalo Muhammad, Russell Tovey and Su
Pollard, all set to the perfect Saturday
soundtrack.
• Click below to listen to the show
which is available at BBC Sounds for the
next four week.
08.08.2021:
The Sunday Show/Incapable Staircase
Sunday 15th August, 2.30 to
5.30pm. The Sunday Show with
Derek & Steve are live in Blackpool
with special guests Su Pollard, Sue
Devaney, Kay Cole and many more.
• Click below to visit the Incapable
Staircase website where the show will be
live streamed.
Su is one of 20
celebrities participating in the new,
six-week, series of BBC one's hit show Celebrity
Masterchef 2021.
The series begins this Monday, 9th
August, and Su is one of the first five
celebrities to get cooking for Greg
Wallace and John Torode in the famous Celebrity
Masterchef kitchen.
The series, filmed earlier this year
during lockdown and adhering to strict
contact and distancing rules, is airing
on Monday, Tuesday and Friday evenings,
at 9pm, for the next six weeks.
Pointless Celebrities: Challenge:
Friday 6th August: 7pm Comedy Performers. Alexander
Armstrong hosts as contestants from the
world of comedy take part in the game
show. They are Birds of a Feather
actresses Lesley Joseph and Linda Robson,
impressionists Ronni Ancona and Phil
Cornwell, Hi-de-Hi! stars Su Pollard and
Ruth Madoc and stand-up comics Josh
Widdicombe and Sara Pascoe. Who'll be
best when it comes to picking the most
obscure correct responses? Richard Osman
is the one with the answers.
03.08.2021:
Su On TV: NOW 80s
Mark Goodier's No.2s
of 1980s: NOW 80s: Friday 6th August: 3am
60 minutes of back to back UK chart
runners-up from 1986 - including hit
ladies Madonna, Sinitta, Kim Wilde &
Su Pollard! With Mr Charts himself - Mark
Goodier.
Where Did THAT Come From? 80-89:
NOW 80s: Friday 6th August: 3pm
These odd songs seemed to come from
nowhere, but left a lasting mark -
sometimes good, but often quite bad.
Watch out for a chorus of frogs, male
strippers...oh, and Su Pollard.
03.08.2021:
Su Pollard - Career Archive
Grab a cuppa and browse the Su
Pollard Career Archive.
It's essentially a list, but a long and
very comprehensive and interesting list.
Happy reading...
03.08.2021:
The Official Su Pollard Instagram
Pay a visit to The
Official Su Pollard Instagram. A
highly entertaining look through Su's
eclectic and highly varied career, with
many photos and video clips. Great fun!
17.07.2021:
Acting For Others: The Best Of The West
End
Dearest
Ambassadors,
I hope you are all well. We cannot wait
to see you all again and to get our
events back up and running.
Excitingly, Alpha’s The Best of The
West End at The Royal Albert Hall is
supporting Acting for Others. This is
going to be a fantastic musical
celebration with your fellow Ambassador,
Ben Forster at the helm.
We are asking if you could please help
promote the event by creating a short (30
second) video on your social media
platforms. I know you are all very busy
so if you can’t make a video, please
can you create a post about the event and
support The Best of The West End on their
socials.
Important information to include with any
of the images attached:
The Best of the West End is back for an
incredible celebration on the 150th year
of the Royal Albert Hall to support
Acting for Others. The fabulous cast
includes Layton Williams, Ben Forster,
John Owen-Jones, Lauren Samuels, Sophie
Evans, Matt Henry MBE, Matt Croke, Mica
Paris, Friederike Krum and the female
supergroup, WOMAN. Hosted by Ruthie
Henshall
Title: Alpha’s The Best of The West
End at The Royal Albert Hall
Date: Wednesday 21st July, 7.30
Cause: £5 from every ticket goes to
Acting for Others including profits.
· Olivier Award-winning creative team
including Choreographer Stephen Mear CBE,
Lighting Designer Tim Lutkin and West End
Musical Director Dr Stuart Morley.
· Over 200 artists performing.
· A Live orchestra
· Choir from MX Masterclass and Mount
View
· Headliners including Layton Williams,
Ben Forster, John Owen-Jones, Lauren
Samuels, Sophie Evans, Matt Henry MBE,
Matt Croke, Mica Paris, Friederike Krum
and female supergroup WOMAN
Your support is always hugely
appreciated, and it really does help us
raise awareness of Acting for Others and
brilliant events like these a success!
Any questions do get in touch.
17.07.2021:
Su on TV: Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
"I am very pleased to know that
Adam, his team and students have worked
tirelessly to produce this piece. Great
to see them performing one of the
classics. I think we should encourage
enthusiasm, commitment and dedication,
all the qualities that are needed in the
performing profession. I do hope you will
support this very worthwhile project but
most importantly, enjoy it. Thanks very
much. Luv to you all, Su P
xxxx".
It is so wonderful to see such a talented
group of young people doing great things
for a fantastic cause...
A new twist on Oscar Wilde’s The
Importance of Being Earnest is set
to take to the digital stage. The play is
performed and filmed at the Sunderland
Empire and the streamed show will serve
as a fundraiser for Acting for Others, a
national charity which gives those
working in the entertainment industry
incredibly vital financial and emotional
support.
The charity
production offers Wilde’s most
widely-loved and recognised play, with a
twist. The playwright himself will be
introduced as a character at three
intervals during the performance. These
scenes immuminate Oscar’s remarkable
story, from his magnificent rise to
stardom to his heartbreaking downfall
following revelations about his
sexuality. The entire production will
also be performed against the backdrop of
the 2,000 empty seats of the magnificent
Sunderland Empire, symbolically calling
attention to the suffering of the arts
industry throughout the Covid-19
crisis.
Tickets to this
charity production of The Importance
of Being Earnest are officially on
sale TODAY! They can be purchased via the
link: www.stream.theatre/season/151
The performance
will be available from July 2nd to July
16th, with ticket holders having access
to it throughout this period.
So, if you want the chance to see Oscar
Wilde on stage AND contribute to the
wonderful charity, Acting for Others,
while you are at it, then this is your
opportunity! Get ready for what looks set
to be an incredible, hilarious and
heart-wrenching version of The
Importance of Being Earnest! (Director,
Adam Kinneen)
28.06.2021:
Su On Tour: Harpy - Tickets On Sale Now!
Tickets for a selection of
rescheduled Harpy dates are
currently on sale. More info and ticket
links can be browsed by clicking below.
Another chance to see the
classic epsiode of the sitcom Gimme
Gimme Gimme, with Su as Heidi
Honeycomb, guest starring alongside Kathy
Burke and James Dreyfus.
07.06.2021:
Hi-de-Hi! - 40th Anniversary with Su
& Jeff
Robert
Ross Presents Hi-De-Hi: a 40th
anniversary reunion with Su Pollard and
Jeffrey Holland
Hi-De-Hi, David Croft and Jimmy Perry's
spirited love letter to the declining
days of the British holiday camp, was
first broadcast in the January of 1980
and proved an instant success.
In a unique and exciting Museum of Comedy
event that is bound to sell out very
quickly, we are delighted to be joined by
Su Pollard, who shot to stardom as the
eager-to-please chalet maid Peggy
Ollerenshaw, and Jeffrey Holland, who
spent nearly a decade wearing funny
costumes and falling in to the
Olympic-sized swimming pool as camp comic
Spike Dixon.
As well as fond memories of Hi-De-Hi, Su
and Jeffrey will share tales of You Rang,
M'Lord, the series that reunited them
with the late Paul Shane; as well as Oh,
Doctor Beeching! which, twenty five years
ago, once more cast the trio of comedy
favourites.
Just this last pantomime season Su and
Jeffrey were back on stage together,
starring in Dick Whittington at the
Wolverhampton Grand Theatre. The
production was a box office smash.
This intimate and affectionate,
clip-laden chat, chaired by Britain's
comedy historian Robert Ross, promises to
be a show not to be missed!
This show was rescheduled from 22nd
November 2021 (originally 22nd March
2020).
• Continue reading/Book tickets here.
NB: There are two chances to attend this
event with Su and Jeff, at 5.30pm and
7.30pm.
20.03.2021:
Su on TV: Hi-de-Hi! on GOLD
Hi-de-Hi! is
airing, from Series One, on GOLD daily.
27.10.2020:
Su on TV: The Chase - Celebrity Special
The Chase -
Celebrity Special: Saturday 31st October:
8pm
Bradley Walsh presents as celebrity
contestants Su Pollard, Jordan Banjo, AJ
Odudu and Jonathan Ross pit their wits
against one of the ruthless Chasers in
the hope of winning a potential prize pot
worth thousands of pounds. They must work
as a team and play strategically to
answer general knowledge questions
against the clock and race down the game
board to the exit without being caught.
03.10.2020:
Hi-de-Hi! - 40th Anniversary with Su
& Jeff
03.10.2020:
Belper News: Su Brings Harpy To
Derbyshire
Hi-De-Hi
star Su Pollard will bring
heart-wrenching play Harpy to Derbyshire
National treasure Su Pollard stars in
a one-woman show that explores mental
illness and loneliness among the elderly.
Best known for her role as chalet maid
Peggy in telly sitcom Hi-De-Hi, Su will
be performing in Harpy at Buxton’s
Pavilion Arts Centre on March 25, 2021.
Su plays Birdie, a character who is
elderly, struggling with mental health
and being alone, and is an avid hoarder
clinging on to memories of the past. Her
neighbours think Birdy is a harridan,
although most have never met her.
Su
Pollard became a much-loved sitcom star
in the 1980s with the BBC’s
Hi-de-Hi!, and has since had a
wide-ranging stage and screen career,
starring in musicals and pantomime. Su
says:
When the theatres were closed, I’d
just done four performances of a
one-person show called Harpy: it’s a
beautiful play about a hoarder and how
she got into that situation. The great
thing is that all the dates have been
rescheduled for next year, and we’ve
also added some extra ones. I still
don’t take it for granted that
they’ll go ahead, but I use the
H-word because you’ve got to have
hope, darling.
I’ve been fortunate enough to work
consistently for nearly 50 years, but
it’s the younger performers I really
feel for, the ones who’ve just come
out of college and got their first job.
What a terrible knock to their confidence
this will be, and a terrible knock to
their finances. And it’s not just
the actors I worry about, it’s the
lighting and sound guys and all the rest
of the crew: we all need each other to
put a production on.
On Thursday 30th July 2020,
the pressure group, Ludicrous Road
Closures staged their second protest
outside the Town hall in Islington, North
London, at one stage with a few being
trapped inside the building. Actress Su
Pollard was on hand to offer her strong
support and the local press completely
missed her speech by being pre-occupied
elsewhere, instead preferring to publish
a false headline that suited the councils
agenda.
19.07.2020:
Su on TV: Last Laugh In Vegas - Showtime
Last Laugh
In Vegas - Showtime: ITV: Sunday 19th
July: 11.50pm Showtime. Series 1, episode 5.
After adjusting to life in Nevada, and
trying to impress flamboyant producer
Frank Marino, Cannon and Ball, Anita
Harris, Kenny Lynch, Bernie Clifton and
Su Pollard take to the stage for their
big gig in Las Vegas. With Jess Conrad,
Mick Miller and Bobby Crush also hoping
to wow the masses, it remains to be seen
whether Frank's hard work has paid off.
19.07.2020:
British Classic Comedy: David Croft's
Last Stand...
Oh
Doctor Beeching, 1995
Oh Doctor Beeching is remembered by many
comedy fans for being the last in a
series of three comedies by co-writer
David Croft to use many of the same
actors, starting with Hi-de-Hi!, and
followed by You Rang, M’Lord? as
well as David Croft’s final
broadcast work for the BBC.
Written by David Croft and Richard
Spendlove, after a pilot episode was
broadcast on 14th August 1995, the show
ran for two series from 1996, with the
last episode being broadcast on September
1997. The program was filmed on the
Severn Valley Railway, with the part of
Hatley station being played by the Arley
SVR station in Upper Arley.
19.07.2020:
Nottinghamshire Live: Su in the Notts
Forest Crowd
Spot
yourself in the crowd at Nottingham
Forest's City Ground.
Forest fans are mingling with stars at
the City Ground, among them Brian Clough,
Su Pollard, Peter Shilton, Harry and
Meghan, Stuart Pearce, characters from
The Office, Roy Keane, Grotbags... are
you sitting next to someone famous?
Nottingham's Su Pollard and The Office's
Gareth Keenan mingle with the fans.
07.07.2020:
Harpy: Tour Rescheduled for Early 2021
Due to the ongoing global
pandemic and theatres remaining closed, Harpy
has now been rescheduled for early 2021.
Please click below to stay updated on
these rescheduled tour dates.
07.07.2020:
Su on TV: Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
05.07.2020:
Pride: Su Celebrates Pride with Friends
Join
national treasure, actress and comedienne
Su Pollard and friends as she introduces
songs from her favourite LGBT+ Off West
End musicals. Featuring cast members and
songs from GRINDR The Opera, Naked Boys
Singing, Tickle The Musical and Bathhouse
The Musical, with a special appearance
from the Brazilian cast of Naked Boys
Singing currently in lockdown in São
Paulo.
The concert is free to watch. Donations
may be made to support the Kings Head
Theatre, Islington, the UK's biggest
presenter of LGBT+ theatre.
There's been a lot
of, Celebrity Masterchef
related, Su press over the past week or
so. Here is a small selection. (Photo ©
BBC)
Dearest
Ambassadors,
