Booths stepping out for special guest role in hit series Last Tango
UPMARKET GROCER and wine merchant Booths is to make a guest appearance in Sally Wainwright’s popular BBC drama, Last Tango in Halifax, which will be broadcast on Sunday.
The Bafta award-winning series follows two widowed pensioners, Alan and Celia, played by Sir Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid, as they rekindle a childhood romance
In the drama, Alan takes on a new job at a local upmarket supermarket. Location manager, Jonathan Davies, said Ms Wainwright was keen to film at Booths in Ilkley.
A spokesman said: “Booths takes pride in a family ethos and has long been the champion and employer of older workers, 467 employees are over the age of 60, an impressive 16 per cent of the nearly 3,000-strong workforce.”
Store manager, Rachel Costello, added: “Booths is a family business and that ethos extends to our workforce.
Booths is very much a multigenerational employer.
“I think this storyline will resonate with quite a lot of colleagues and customers. Our colleagues really benefit from being an inter generational workforce, working as a team gives life a bit of purpose at whatever age.”
She said staff at the Ilkley branch very much enjoyed the experience.
“We had a great time helping out with the filming and I loved seeing Sir Derek working behind a till at Booths. “He really looked the part – we’d definitely hire him, I’ve heard he’s a fan of pork pies, so we might have a position for him at the counters.”
Booths donated its location fee to charity.
In series four, Alan and Celia are now seven years into their marriage and aren’t quite seeing eye to eye. Alan, needing to find a bit of independence, takes on a new job at a local upmarket supermarket.