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Iain Carter

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
472 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Chipping Forecast
Family Fortunes

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.

The Chipping Forecast
Family Fortunes

There's one part of it that really amused me, which I think it might be.

The Chipping Forecast
Family Fortunes

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.

The Chipping Forecast
Family Fortunes

It's one of those no diving.

The Chipping Forecast
Family Fortunes

No diving, no heavy petting, no smoking.

The Chipping Forecast
Family Fortunes

Anyway, she did actually dive bomb in.

The Chipping Forecast
Family Fortunes

So she took her caddy and a brace of other corders with her.

The Chipping Forecast
Family Fortunes

Her older sister, Jessica, went as well.

The Chipping Forecast
Family Fortunes

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

The Chipping Forecast
Family Fortunes

It was like Enver Hoxha of Albania was a big fan of the films of Norman Wisdom, so he's a star in Albania.

The Chipping Forecast
Family Fortunes

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.

The Chipping Forecast
Family Fortunes

And Peter Korda, growing up, so loved Larry Grayson that he said he wanted his first grandson named after him.

The Chipping Forecast
Family Fortunes

Anyway, Grayson, the wee boy... Which is spelled G-R-E-Y.

The Chipping Forecast
Family Fortunes

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...

The Chipping Forecast
Family Fortunes

was absolutely an unwilling participant in this endeavour.