From the Crossroads Specials - Dishy David Hunter

[Tish Hope]

These pieces from the 2 Crossroads annuals were posted by me on the crossroads fan Club website years ago and I am now dusting them down and posting them here for your entertainment! Enjoy darlings ...

Dishy David Hunter

When David Hunter first arrived at the Crossroads motel as Meg's partner, she found in him the perfect mixture of charm, common-sense and expert business ability. He became a close friend of Meg's and the idol of hundreds of Crossroads fans.

Because Meg has had much heartache in her own personal life, she had a ready sympathetic ear when David confided in her about his ex-wife, a neurotic woman with a weakness for alcohol which put a great strain on the marriage as well as on David's temper. Since then, David had always been rather wary of women, especially as those he did begin to care for somehow let him down.

David was extremely fond of Kelly, a globetrotting journalist whose career took her to exotic places around the world. Kelly was a restless sort of person, "a bit of a nut" , even in her own opinion, and David was reluctant to force the pace in case she took off again.

Convinced however, that they were more than good friends, David was both hurt and angry when he learned from a newspaper that Kelly was going to marry Steve McKenna, and although David later learned that Steve had given the information to the press hoping that Kelly would not deny it, Kelly's reaction was not what David had hoped for. She told David she would live her life as she wanted, and that he was too possessive.

It took a battle with the elements - in which David and Kelly fought side by side trying to save Carney's roses for the garden fete - to make Kelly realise where her true affections lay. But when she went to tell David this, David surprised and dismayed Kelly by saying that he had been doing some hard thinking and that it was too late for them ever to have a lasting relationship.

David was a tower of strength to Meg when Hugh Mortimer died especially as he was consumed with guilt about Hugh's death, because his son Chris was involved in the kidnapping which resulted in Hugh's death. Chris, whose portrait hangs in David's office, was the unwitting linkman between the terrorists and the motel, and Hugh's resulting death preyed heavily on David's mind. Eventually he had to go away for a long rest until he'd got everything in proportion, and at last he was able to return to the motel.

David Hunter is played by Ronald Allen, who made a Crossroads fan have " knees as weak as jelly" when she met him as a result of winning a competition. And with those dishy good looks, who can blame her?

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