Learn by Michael Whitehall, that includes Jack Whitehall and Hilary Whitehall.
Standing in entrance of a full-length mirror in my dressing room at ITV studios, ready to go on to the set of Backchat, I had a short dialog with my reflection.
‘Michael, what the f*** do you suppose you are doing?’
Theatrical agent Michael Whitehall spent a profession pushing others into the highlight. He had been concerned behind the scenes with the careers of many outstanding actors, together with Colin Firth, Richard Griffiths, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tom Courtenay, Ian Ogilvy, Judi Dench, Edward Fox, Michael Fassbender, Angela Thorne and Nigel Havers.
However then, a lot to his shock, his son Jack turns into a profitable comic and actor and decides that his new comedy companion must be his father. Whitehall Snr. finds himself reluctantly showing on stage after which tv, forged because the archetypal grumpy outdated man and thrust, in his early 70s, into a complete new profession in entrance of the digicam. Minor fame comes at a sedate tempo: one of many highlights being a report £300,000 win for charity with Jack on Channel 4’s The Million Pound Drop.
On this enchanting memoir, Whitehall appears again on his life, from rising up in suburban London within the Forties and ’50s along with his saintly father and social climbing mom, who coined the phrase ‘à la carte’ to explain individuals who had been posher than she was and whose firm she craved, to falling right into a profession as a profitable theatrical agent and producer. As he says, ‘Actors might be egotistical, grasping and useless, however they are not half as dangerous as brokers and producers’.
Charming, gossipy and above all very humorous, Backing into the Highlight is not any atypical present enterprise memoir.
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