Pete’s own goal gaffe
Christmas party in 2016. She was living in Staffordshire at the time.
Pam said: “I didn’t know who Michael was at first.
“I knew about Lynda of course. As I was growing up, I’d watch her in All Creatures Great And Small or in the Oxo ads.
“But quite quickly people started saying bad things about him to me.
“But they’d never met him. “Three months after I met him, I read Michael’s book, My Lynda, in a single evening.
“It was deeply moving.
“It reduced me to tears but it told me all I needed to know.”
She went on: “I like to think now that, because my loss occurred three years earlier, I was able to help Michael in the grieving process.”
“But in a way, we were helping each other.” PETER Crouch almost failed to score with wife Abbey Clancy after asking for her number and then chatting up a different woman.
Abbey, 33, who has four kids with the ex-footballer, 38, revealed the unpromising start to John Bishop, 52, as a guest on the show he co-hosts with her hubby.
Recalling their first encounter in 2006, she told Amazon Prime series Back Of The Net: “There’s no romantic story. We met in a bar in Liverpool. He was begging me for my number all night, obviously.
“I went to the toilet and came back and he was talking to another girl.”
She also revealed that he failed to charm her when she let him take her out.
Abbey added: “He was not a top-class gentleman. On a first date you expect the man to buy the drinks.” TINA Turner’s songs are used to scare birds off the runway at Staverton Airport in Gloucester.
Staff have stuck a loudspeaker on a van that they drive up and down during quiet times.
Head of operations Darren Lewington said: “When our bird distress noises weren’t working properly they turned the tape player on and it was Tina Turner who scared the birds away.”