We’re all going on a...night trip on London Tube
HE’S famed for riding a London bus in the hit musical film Summer Holiday at the start of his career. But pop legend Sir Cliff Richard, now 77, prefers the Tube these days, it seems. The singing superstar was spotted riding in a packed carriage on the London Underground night service this week, with hardly any of the passengers recognising him. Sir Cliff, wearing a faux fur-lined coat and carrying an umbrella, jumped on the Jubilee line at Green Park on Tuesday night. A passenger on the Tube said: “I was getting on and I walked by him and thought, ‘That looks like Cliff’.
“I wasn’t completely sure it was him until he spoke to a man he was with – a tall American bloke. “He seemed relaxed and sleepy. “Nobody noticed him at all. Everyone on the carriage was pretty young though, so I guess that’s why he’s comfortable taking public transport.
“He got off at North Greenwich and went to the car pick-up area.”
Sir Cliff is in London for his court case against the BBC for live broadcasting a police raid on his home in 2014.
The singer, who said he suffered “profound and long-lasting damage” from the rolling coverage of the raid on his home in Sunningdale, Berkshire, is seeking massive damages.
The Met Police announced in 2016 Sir Cliff would not face any charges after a man alleged he abused him as a child at Sheffield United’s Bramall Lane in 1985.
Sir Cliff later wrote of his ordeal: “It hurt me so much I don’t think I can ever recover personally.
“I’m living my life again and it’s all in my past, but when I think of what I tried to build up in my career, I know it’s been damaged in places I won’t ever go back to.”
Sir Cliff was never arrested or charged over the sex abuse claims.