Those Stars Who Dared To Snub A Crossroads Fan!

[Elizabeth]

We often hear about the very professional and fantastic way in which the stars of Crossroads treat their fans. Ronnie Allen and Noele Gordon loved their fans and were brilliant with them. Many actors have also supported CAS and been happy to give interviews. In fact overall I believe Crossroads outdoes many other shows in this respect.

However, has anyone ever had a bad experience with a Crossroads star? Has anyone been snubbed by one?

[Doltrice]

Diane Keen

[Mike of CAS]

I'd heard something about Keen too, apparently told off Richard and Judy once for daring to bring up her time on Crossroads on This Morning.

Er the nice side I must big up Glynn Pritchard who emailed a few weeks ago to say how he'd enjoyed the CAS site.

Also Reg Watson's Personal Assistant from the 60s emailed with support so I do actually feel awfully proud of it. But then again with that a lot of, I don't know whats the word. It's worrying I suppose that we have to get it right for people.

I did hear something about Warren Clarke being a tit once, moaning about his time on Crossroads, saying how you could never sit in Nolly's chair in the rehearsal room.

Related to that I did hear it was worse at Emmerdale. The old cast all had comfy chairs, the ones who had been there a while had slightly better chairs and the new lot had plastic canteen seats. Now that is a pecking order!

[Urbanite]

That is odd of Diane Keen as she talked about being on Crossroads when she was on Light Lunch, hosted by Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins back in 1998, I think it was. That was when she was in Brookside playing Molly Marchbank. She whisked David Crosbie away from the Close for a better life.

Now she is in Doctors, a Midland drama, and surely must have dealt with phone calls and other things at reception, so where better than Crossroads could you get better experience? IMDB.com also says 2 years after being in Crossroads, she was in Emmerdale as a receptionist. :mrgreen:

[Mike of CAS]

David Jason is another, he said he wasn't in Crossroads until that photo of him in Meg's sitting room surfaced.

[Urbanite]

David Jason is another, he said he wasn't in Crossroads until that photo of him in Meg's sitting room surfaced.

Oh, David Jason, you plonker.

[Barbara Hunter]

Isn't that bird whom is now in the height of quality entertainment, Benidorm, also a bit of a...

She never replies to mail about Crossroads. Yet Sue Nicholls does and is far more successful.

[Bill Farrow]

I also seem to remember Johnny Briggs, who played Clifford Leyton, rubbishing his time on Crossroads.
And, of course, there's Edward Clayton, whose rants I've posted elsewhere - as taken from an article in an Irish newspaper.

[Mike of CAS]

Johnny Briggs did while he was in Corrie.. funny after he left how he said it was thanks to Jack Barton and Crossroads that he got the part in Corrie, just proves that 'Granada line toeing' where you had to say only nice stuff about Corrie, and make out Crossroads was a joke.

Not sure why, they were not the same kind of shows at all. Obviously Granada found Crossroads a bit of a threat.

[survivor]

I also seem to remember Johnny Briggs, who played Clifford Leyton, rubbishing his time on Crossroads.
And, of course, there's Edward Clayton, whose rants I've posted elsewhere - as taken from an article in an Irish newspaper.

Yes i remember Johnny Briggs saying that whilst he was working on Xrds he found it hard to communicate with anyone, as no one wouid speak to him, & that he felt he had been sent a few miles down the road to Coventry.

[Mike of CAS]

While in Corrie:

"I told them [Coronation Street] to forget it. I didn't plan to do any more soaps, not after Crossroads. You slammed the door and all the pictures fell off the wall - it was too embarrassing."

After he left, in the TV Times he said:

"It was when I was in Crossroads playing taxi firm boss Clifford Leyton that the Coronation Street producer, Bill Podmore, wanted a Londoner. He said to the Crossroads producer, Jack Barton, 'That Johnny Briggs, is he alright?' Jack said 'Yeah, he knows his lines, he turns up to the set on time,' so I was asked to do it and I said 'Ok, I'll do three months.' Then the years have just crept up.."

[Douggie]

Rebecca Hazelwood took Crossroads of her CV on her official website during her time with Bad Girls...for some reason.

I'm sure I read an interview recently, somewhere, with Daine Keen and she spoke, briefly, about her previous soap roles and mentioned Crossroads. I just can't remember where I read it. Maybe online somewhere. She's something of a soap whore though having done Emmerdale Farm, Crossroads, Brookside and now Doctors.

[Mark]

It's not Crossroads but keeping on the same theme, there was a story that
Wendy Richard would be very 'offhand' if anyone dared to sit in her chair in the
cast green room when she was on EastEnders.

I think one of the younger actors had a moan to the tabloids about certain older
cast members being snobbish towards them, Wendy being mentioned and also
Ian Lavender.

[survivor]

Ian Lavender apparently used to get fed up with the younger set playing footy outside his dressing room,so he went out & told them that " If they couidn't behave professionally then to sod off back to Grange Hill where they were obviously more suited for".............Owlch!

[Rosemary Hunter]

Oh darlings it's always nice to hear that some people don't put up with the childish antics of the youth of today. Well done Pike!