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unless you, um, Lift Off with Ayshea.......

I'm just a bit too young to have seen Lift Off (I was three when it finished) and though I'm aware of UFO, I've only ever seen it about once, so had no idea whatsoever until she told us.

I was only five at the time, but he lived next door with his lovely wife Andrea .. who always seemed to be cooking something tasty and exotic

My parents bumped into him a few years ago, asked are you Robin Trower. He was ready to prepping for an autograph when they reminded him they were former neighbours..

... but who is she? Is this a Hannah Montana thing?

her, but she does look rather charming.

was in UFO with Peter Gordeno. What more do you want ?

some kind of owl involved? Ollie Beak if I recall....

brimful of Ayshea?

coat...

Wasn't she accompanied by Roy North? I seem to recall (imagined) Roy North singing "Lay Down Sally", but as it was "children's tv" the lyric was changed to "Sit Down Sally". How times have changed. But yes, Ayesha was a honey.

and being scared by Roy Wood .

I'm sure I would have had a crush on Ayshea had I been older. However, I think my first TV crush was Jenny Hanley on Magpie

She still looks like the photo...and has the same wardrobe....giggity, giggity.

...location for the first ever televised sighting of the then shocking David Bowie performing 'Starman' with his arm draped languidly across Mick Ronson's shoulders. Not TOTP, which followed some days later.

And yes, I am impressed.

not Tingle.Roy Wood is a bit of a legend in these parts but I think he has had his fair share of crazy women.I spoke with a client in Shropshire a number of years ago who lived next to Roy Wood and his then partner.Apparently part of his house was his recording studio and when she became estranged she allegedly went in and smashed it up. Personally dont recall either Lift off or Ayshea but I am sure she was lovely.

I'm ludicrously jealous.

When Lift Off first aired I was eleven, and I had a huge crush on the lovely Ayesha.

NB Before this thread I rather liked Roy Wood. Suddenly I seem to have gone off him...

...perhaps even a little jealous.
When I realised, in my early teens, that Sandie Shaw was not attainable, I decided that I would marry Ayshea instead. Sadly, she was unaware of this and carried on with her life, without me.

Was she in another program with a mystical character called Tarot and a heavy played by Tony Selby? Or was it just on after Lift-Off? Or am I having the flashbacks again?

(Nurse! The screens!!)

Sandie Shaw was my first crush and I am not happy about anyone else muscling in on the act. Still think she is rather lovely now actually.

I shall be ready at dawn.

Sandie Shaw, Diana Ross, Ayshea & Mavis Nicholson were amongst my teen crushes.

29 comments and no mention of Archie Andrews !!!
Assuming her dad was indeed the great Peter Brough, who vied with Terry Hall for the title of World's Worst Ventriloquist.
(Maybe I should have wikied her first)

Please ask her if she has a video of that Bowie Starman performance . This is one of the holy grails in DB land !

in my case 47), had so many music programmes as kids, didn't we? Lift Off, Cheggers, Get it Together, that one with Mike Mansfield cueing everything, TOTP obv, some Saturday lunchtime live concert that always had Shakin Stevens and the Sunsets, John Miles or Geordie on it, all the Saturday am shows - Zokko anyone? Then as we got older (OG)WT, the Tube, The White Room, Revolver, Switch, In Concert.
Apart from Later... and the T4 (or is it E4) bits - where do we see bands performing (or pretending to) on telly these days?

I lived next door to Alice for 24 years. I still don't know why she left, i guess she had her reasons.....

... were Ayshea and Gabrielle Drake, both from UFO as it happened... I remember seeing Gabrielle Drake for the first time without her purple wig on some other programme and being distraught about it... I also have a very vivid picture in my head of Ayshea and Roy Wood on the cover of Look-In magazine ("The junior TV Times!") both wearing "Wizzard" make-up...

I'd heard she'd become a bit of a recluse after leaving TV, but hope she's happy & healthy... c'mon Fraser, spill it, how does she look?

compared to his smug slightly sleepy eyes suggests Corporal Jones catchphrase had recently been invoked?!

For a CD compilation of Roy North's "Get it Together" maulings of contemporary pop hits.

As for Bowie, wasn't the famous Starman performance on Marc Bolan's kids' TV show, "Marc"? To think, I probably switched over during stuff like that because Scooby Doo was "on the other"!

would it be a seminole moment?

if I hear Queen and I put my foot through the radio playing that crap

In an interview, she says:

"My very first role model was a woman called Ayshea. She presented a kids' TV show called Junior Showtime with a puppet called Fred the Dog. She was the first Asian woman I had ever seen on screen; she was young and really pretty, and I remember thinking, 'How did you do that? How did you get in there?' I had only ever seen people who looked like me in Bollywood films. Or in news footage about floods."

Ollie Beak was originally on Tuesday Rendezvous with Redvers Kyle and Muriel Young. Alexis Korner also appeared on the show, not to mention Fred Barker the puppet dog.

If she still has those silver platform boots.

Can the Word interview her, please. There is an interview here - it's rather dull, but it does have photos.

http://issuu.com/lushlifemagazine/docs/lushmagazineissue7may/57