Little and Large star serves big burgers
Syd Little has given up showbiz to serve large burgers.
The entertainer – one half of comedy duo Little and Large – helps out at his wife’s restaurant.
He serves grub including the Syd Special Burger – two quarter pounders and two onion rings in a bun – at the Little Restaurant in the Steamer pub in Fleetwood, Lancashire.
Syd, 74, said: “I do it for fun. My wife doesn’t pay me. But it’s nice being with her and it is quite good to see what people think.
“People come and they say to me, ‘ Why you doing this?’ I tell them, ‘If I sat at home, I’d be vegetating’.”
Syd, real name Cyri l Mead, added: “It keeps me fit because, I tell you what, waiting is not easy.”
His job is a far cry from his stint as one of Britain’s best-known entertainers in the 80s.
Eighteen million regularly watched the Little and Large show on BBC1.
They eventual ly spl it in 2003 when Eddie Large, 76, who dubbed Syd “Supersonic”, needed a heart transplant.
Syd worked on cruise ships for a while and was a contestant on Celebrity MasterChef in 2015.
Syd said: “We were 14 years on television but after that you start to come down. You go to theatres and they’re half full and me and Eddie thought, ‘ This is it’. Every act has its shelf life.
“We can’t not say we’ve had a g reat l i fe and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.”