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Robert Sellers recalls this edition of This Is Your Life in his book, What Fresh Lunacy Is This?...
Oliver had always been a popular chat show guest during the seventies, though his appearances on them were sporadic.
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He placed chat shows very much in the same categories as premieres: something he felt obliged to do rather than something he enjoyed.
'They weren't really his motivator,' says Mark. 'I never remember him relishing going on a Parkinson or a Russell Harty.
It was dread, because of his shyness.'
And when in 1986 he was the subject of This Is Your Life, well you can guess his reaction. Halfway up to London he'd worked it out and went, "It's mine, isn't it?" and his whole body language changed.
'Doing that show would have been outrageously painful to him,' says Sarah.
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'He hated every minute of it, except probably when Dadi (his driver in Barbados) was the surprise guest at the end. But the rest of it would have been completely grim to him. That was putting him ou