Lorraine chase and debbie mcgee canal trips
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Lorraine chase and debbie mcgee canal trips
Life in the slow lane: The four celebrities taking part in a new narrowboat show couldn’t be more different. Would there be argy-bargy?
The biggest hurdle for the unlikely cocktail of celebrities sharing two narrowboats for a new TV show wasn’t getting to grips with the 60ft vessels – but getting to grips with each other.
Sharing one boat were dashing actor Nigel Havers and magician Paul Daniels’ widow Debbie McGee, while on the other were erudite actor and theatre director Simon Callow and self-confessed batty Cockney Lorraine Chase.
Pootling around the stunning Kennet and Avon and Llangollen canals near the English-Welsh border at 4mph for two weeks for Celebrity Carry On Barging there was one spectacular crash, several near misses and an excruciating 50-point turn into a marina by Simon Callow, but cabin fever was always going to be as much of a hazard for our intrepid bargers.
‘I took a good supply of wine and my whippet-cross dog Alfie who slept at the end of my bed,’ laughs