Zoe Lyons
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He was a global sensation.
Yes, I've skied with him.
He's such a lovely guy.
He really is.
So a few years, I've done the Altitude Comedy Festival out in Austria.
And on one of those years, he was coming out and talking about the film that was just about to be released.
So he was one of the guests on the festival talking about his film.
And one day the producer went, do you want to go skiing with Eddie Deagle?
And I went, do I?
That's amazing.
And the thing about him is we sort of concentrate on the fact that he was, you know, he came last in the ski jump.
He's actually, he's an incredible skier.
He's a brilliant skier.
And I spoke to him and he was saying, you know, he wanted to be in the downhill part.
the British downhill team, but he wasn't good enough.
So he thought, well, rather than give up completely, he went, what's nobody doing?
And they were like, ski jumping.