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Thanks for typing up the articles Jackie.

Kaz




- In leosayerfansclubhouse@y..., "esmetwine" <jackietwine89@h...>
wrote:
> Just thought you might like to know a couple of article statements
> on Leo Sayer taken from a couple of television magazines.
>
> BEST FORGOTTON
> The Entertainers BBC2 10.00PM
> Displayed a picture of Leo Sayer
> Under the picture it reads
> Don't worry Leo, you could always do some moonlighting as a syle
guru
>
> For dyed-in-the perm troopers like singer Leo Sayer
> The Show Must Go On. Even if nobody seems all that bothered
anymore.
> And that's the key to this series, which catches up with a bunch of
> one-time celebs but for whom hope springs eternal - after all, look
> at the comeback Tony Blackburn has managed!.
>
> OLDEN GOLDIE
> It's been nearly 30 years since Leo Sayer was a pop idol, but he
> hasn't retired yet. BY TIM OGLETHORPE....................
> THE ENTERTAINERS TUES AND THURS BBC2 NEW
> Stunning picture of Leo Sayer dessed in black jacket and trousers
> states Eveb at 54 Leo is still going strong.
>
> The outcome of I'm a celebrity ...Get Me Out Of Here! could have
> been a lot different, if pint-sized singer Leo Sayer had agreed to
> go on.
>
> But Leo's hoping that a fly-on-the-wall documentary series will do
> for his career what I'm A Celebrity...did for its winner Tony
> Blackburn.
>
> The Entertainers features stars from the Seventies and Eighties who
> are no longer regulars on TV but are still making a living in
> showbusiness.
>
> Leo 54, a chart-topper in the Seventies, could have already been
> back in the spotlight himself had he agreed in appear in the ITV
> show, I'm A Celebrity...
>
> "But I wouldn't have been comfortable doing it," he says. "It
wasn't
> my kind of thing and I'm not sure it would've done me any good. So
I
> turned it down. Oddly enough, I thought The Entertainers sounded a
> bit like it when I was first approached to do it.
>
> "But I quickly realised it wasn't like it at all- it was going to
be
> a celebration of some of the older figures in showbusiness.
>
> "It was going to be a chance to see what they are doing now and
> remind people what they are good at and why they are still so busy."
>
> The cameras follow Leo and his fellow celebrities-including Frank
> Cason, Bernard Manning, Nicholas Parsons, Christopher Biggles and
> Tony Blackburn- at work and home.
>
> Two or three are featured each week and their progress is tracked
> throughout the series.
>
> Filmed during the summer, we see Leo working on his latest album
and
> performing at a concert in Germany, on the same bill as legendary
> rockers Status Quo.
>
> We also see him at his home on the Buckinghamshire/Hertfordshire
> border where Leo, currently single, lives with his manager and ex-
> girlfriend Donatella Piccinetti.
>
> "I think people will witness the real me," says Leo, whose hits
> include WHEN I NEED YOU, YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE DANCING and
> MOONLIGHTING.
>
> "I think some people, when they go on TV, try to project a
> particular image. But the public can see right through that and
> appreciated when celebrities are honest and natural, as they did
> with Tony Blackburn. I certainly don't mind people seeing the real
> me-althought I didn't want to make a fool of myself."
>
> But Leo is confident that
>
he
>
> is going to be protrayed in a positive light. "I#d have worried if
> I'd been embarrassingly short of work during filming,"he
> reveals. "It wouldn't have made a great television if Donatella and
> I had just been siting at home waiting for the phone to ring.
>
> "But it wasn't like that at all. I'm very busy and intend to remain
> so".
>
> At the bottom right hand corner of that article, there is a picture
> of Leo Sayer dressed in his clowns costume in which he wore when he
> first became famous, and toured with Roxy Music as their support
act
> back in the early 70's when Leo's first hit record was climbing
high
> in the charts with THE SHOW MUST GO ON. Leo's clowns costume was
> designed by his ex-wife Janice.
>
> On the photograph the write-up says
> Leo's catch songs and Pierrot costume made him a household name.
>
>
> With Kind Regards
> From
> Jackie Twine