ALRIGHT DAVE!
Fan shouted Trigger’s catchphrase in blizzard
THE star who played Trigger in Only Fools And Horses was so well known a fan called out his catchphrase when spotting him in a raging blizzard.
Actor Roger Lloyd- Pack even had his hood up to shelter from the bitter Icelandic storm and was walking in the opposite direction but still was recognised by the stranger.
Road sweeper Trigger became a household name during the show’s and he became famous for calling Rodney Trotter ‘“Dave”.
Sir David Jason, who played Del Boy said he, Nicholas Lyndhurst ( Rodney) and Roger, who died in 2014, were tortured by fans shouting their catchphrases.
“‘ Alright, Dave?’ The great Roger Lloyd- Pack used to hear that line coming back at him constantly, in the obscurest places – including from a stranger walking the other way in the middle of a raging blizzard in Iceland, late at night, when Roger had his hood up.
“‘ Alright, Dave,’ said this Icelandic stranger as he passed and headed on into the night. Roger came to the conclusion that one day he would climb the highest mountain in Tibet to seek the meaning of life from a cave- dwelling guru up there. “And as he eased his exhausted body over the final rocky outcrop and scrambled onto the ledge where the master of all meaningful knowledge sat cross- legged, the guru would say to him, ‘ Alright, Dave?’”
Sir David revealed: “You couldn’t help noticing how people were coming at you more and more with the show’s catchphrases and greeting you, straight away, as Del, as if the barrier between you and the character had completely melted.
“‘ Oi, Del,’ people would come up and say to me, straight off the bat. ‘ Where’s Rodney?’ “‘ Rodney!’ people would call out to Nick Lyndhurst. ‘ You plonker!’ said Sir David, 80, in his new book called A Del Of A Life.