Originally Posted by
VictorGolf
Not too terrible. I seem to remember a quite famous actress sunbathing topless on the foc'sle or whatever. Poor girl, she looked frozen.
That was the actress Kate O'Mara who played the part of the ship's Purser. By all accounts according to a story recollected by herself it was filmed on a windy cold day and she said it was freezing 😂.
In the late eighties I had a female Purser on-board who looked and sounded just like Kate O'Mara, it was a ferry as well and we were traveling down to Spain and she was on deck in rather inclement weather in her bikini, I can remember saying to her at the time, "who do you think you are bleeding Kate O'Mara", she did laugh and I'm still in touch with her and she's often brought up the story ☺️
Anyway let's get back on track and continue the discussion of Stansted Airport History and Nostalgia.