I had to go to see the police to tell them. So when we made the first show, I was in a fairly awful state of nerves. Although he was famous, I wasn't fazed - he may have just made a film with Elizabeth Taylor but I'd just finished working with Dustin Hoffman.
But filming 13 episodes of the sitcom a year meant all the cast were soon living in each other's pockets. As the only two young, single people on the show, it was perhaps inevitable that O'Sullivan and Sally would get together.
He was kind and charming - he still is - and treated me very gently. That's what I needed. At the time, no one knew that two of the stars of TV's top show were having an affair - hard to believe in these celebrity-obsessed days. I suppose the cast knew but we never talked about it: people never asked about your private life then.
When we did go out, it was with Paula, Brian and Yootha Joyce, who was also in Man About The House, so no one realised that we were together as a couple.
I'd been through the mill with my husband, not just emotionally but with everything that surrounded it - the police, the courts. Suddenly, I was working with all these pleasant people and things had turned around. In , when the writers decided to go out on top and call a halt to the sitcom after three series and a film, the romance gently fizzled out. But while all the other stars of Man About The House went on to more success, work for Sally dried up, perhaps because she was so typecast as a ditzy blonde.
What her work life lacked, however, her personal life has certainly made up for. She's been married again, enjoyed high profile romances with other famous men, suffered the attentions of a stalker and won a libel case against a newspaper who accused her of being a lesbian.
All that and giving birth to her only child at the age of But in the mid-Eighties, she modelled for a brochure for a telecommunications company and met the boss, Claus Nielsen, a Dane.
After the shoot, he invited her to a party at his mansion in north-west London and, three days later, she was still there. They were engaged within a month and soon wed but, like her first marriage, she knew it was a mistake - this time on the honeymoon to a rainy Rio de Janeiro.
Regular break-ups and bust-ups about Sally's partying nature ensued and, after she followed him to LA in in a last-ditch attempt to make their marriage work, they split up. A few years later, he sold a story to a down-market Sunday tabloid claiming their break-up was because Sally was a lesbian. The ensuing 18 months, culminating in the court case, were the worst of my life.
Even today she's not rid of him. I tried to divorce him as I wanted to marry Paul before Charlie was born, but he made it so difficult and now the time has gone. I had to prove we'd been separated for so many years but I didn't have time. I was hoping he'd meet someone else and want a divorce to marry them but it hasn't happened. After such a tempestuous life, it's no wonder she looks back to her time with Richard O'Sullivan with such fondness. In fact, he's the only man she's ever dated seriously with whom she has since kept in touch and retained a close friendship.
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He took the title role in the LWT series Dick Turpin, which ran between and and this series is perhaps rather overlooked these days and due a repeat. It also featured Carry On great Joan Sims in a guest role so that alone is worth a view.
Richard continued to be in demand for acting work right through until the mid s however very sadly ill health took its toll and he was forced into early retirement. Joined by co-stars Paul Cole and Larry Dann, the conversation is riotous and thoroughly entertaining. The old Richard O'Sullivan cheeky charm and charisma is still evident and it's great to hear him reminisce about his career with a group of old mates. Sadly Richard suffered a stroke in the early s and now resides at Brinsworth House, a wonderful retirement home for actors and other entertainment stars.
Richard was back in the news recently when he was pictured meeting Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, while she was touring Brinsworth. Judy Matheson also still keeps in touch with Richard and not so long ago shared a photo of him on Twitter, which was lovely to see. I'm sad that Richard has not been in the best of health in recent years as it has robbed us of one of our most talented and charming leading actors. I think Richard O'Sullivan has suffered when it comes to critical acclaim because he was such a prolific star of light comedies and television sitcoms.
Rampant snobbery at work again I'm afraid. It takes a special kind of actor to be able to carry off leading roles in so many hit series and indeed to make it look so effortless. Looking into Richard's long career, dating back to the early s, you can see the diverse nature of his acting work across all mediums and he really did learn his craft. That alone is worth celebrating. I think it's time Richard was reappraised and celebrated for all the magnificent work he has given us over the years.
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