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I have and seen him live.
Beebo
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He was a judge on the ITV celebrity skating programme. I presume you watched that avidly?
John Curry is another famous British skater who also won spoty. Very sadly he died of AIDS related issues.
Ming the Merciless
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Also the current Vodafone advert
jefmcg
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God, this makes me seem like that person but .... I don't think I have ever watched a celebrity talent programme, and I don't watch broadcast TV, so I haven't seen the Vodafone ads. Not being up-to-date with adverts can be socially awkward: at the cinema a few years ago, I exclaimed to a friend when an EE commercial came on "Hey, that's Kevin Bacon!" He looked at my liked I'd just emerged from a Japanese WW2 bunker.
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Ming the Merciless
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Olympic Gold medalist in 80's and multiple wirld champion but unlikely to know unless you watched skating gack then,
jefmcg
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Meanwhile Torvill and Dean were as unavoidable as Charles and Diana.
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They got the first perfect score IIRC.
Plus Curry and Cousins were both gay, which probably had something to do with it in 1980’s.
Ming the Merciless
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A go at what?
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Keep up at the back.
jefmcg
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I don't think you know how famous T&D were world wide. According to Wikipedia, there have 98 gold medals awarded in figure skating in the last 110 years. How many could you name? None of them were Australian, so T&D are the only winners Icould name of the 98. The only other world class skater I can name without google is Tonya Harding. I can't remember who the other skater was in that incident; Kerry someone? Meanwhile, only Diana had the star power to push Jane Torvill off the cover of New Idea*
The two men are just normal-famous for gold medal winners. They are (obviously from this thread) well known, but they are not superstars. The the other 9x champions are not superstars either, and presumably most of them were heterosexual.
*Amazing: I wrote that sentence first, but a brief google led me to a cover of New Idea that Diana had pushed them off!
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Ming the Merciless
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Just had a go and got 2.4
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I tried skating once. It was a works night out at Bristol ice rink. I broke one of the typist's collar bone. She fell, grabbed hold of me for support and I fell on top of her. I never tried skating again, nor did she.
