Iain Carter
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Podcast Appearances
I mean, this is, you know, and she said afterwards, I think, Ian, that, you know, she likes to keep traditions going, but it's a bit of a corruption of tradition.
There's one part of it that really amused me, which I think it might be.
So she did this celebratory jump into this, as we mentioned, specially built concrete pool, which has four feet written on the base of it.
No diving, no heavy petting, no smoking.
Anyway, she did actually dive bomb in.
So she took her caddy and a brace of other corders with her.
Her older sister, Jessica, went as well.
with her toddler son, Grayson, who incidentally is named after Larry Grayson because her father, Peter, who was a Czech tennis player in Czechoslovakia when he was growing up was, this is fascinating, I found this out, was behind the Iron Curtain and the communist president of Czechoslovakia, Gustav Huzak, who was in power through the 70s and 80s, he was a big fan
It was like Enver Hoxha of Albania was a big fan of the films of Norman Wisdom, so he's a star in Albania.
And The Generation Game was one of the few Western programmes that they used to be allowed to see in Czechoslovakia in the 70s and 80s.
And Peter Korda, growing up, so loved Larry Grayson that he said he wanted his first grandson named after him.
Anyway, Grayson, the wee boy... Which is spelled G-R-E-Y.
No, but that's also the thing, because Peter didn't know how to spell and speak English at the time, so he wrote down a little note saying, I'd like named after... The boy's missing an E. Grayson...
was absolutely an unwilling participant in this endeavour.