Keeping Up Appearances: Onslow was Paul

by **Mr. Badger** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:04 am

Alright, this surprised me a lot when I read it.

The popular BBC 'program', Keeping Up Appearances's slow, fat and lazy person, Onslow, is actually played by the man who did Pauls voice on Yellow Submarine.. Geoffrey Hughes.
Check out this site: http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/Pe ... sonid-7560

Geoffrey Hughes is also born in the magical town of Liverpool..

by **admiralvanderbilt** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 10:53 am

Mmm, one of these two people has aged better than the other...

by **esto** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:29 am

What a surprise ! I like that Onslow-guy. Niiiice!

by **kylestyle** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:31 am

Wow, I didn't know GH did that! I know him better as Eddie Yeats in Coronation Street, but I liked him in Keeping Up Appearances too. That is one hella cool titbit of trivia!

by **admiralvanderbilt** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 3:24 am

Gee, British tv shows travel well. Estonia, Denmark, New Zealand...

by **Mr. Badger** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 7:42 am

kylestyle wrote:Wow, I didn't know GH did that! I know him better as Eddie Yeats in Coronation Street, but I liked him in Keeping Up Appearances too. That is one hella cool titbit of trivia!

GH is actually a very skilled actor. I like him very much as Vernon Scripps in (another British-show) Heartbeat.
I'll think that Yellow Submarine will be very interesting next time I watch it, now when I know who Pauls voice is.

It could have been fun, if it was the real John, Paul, George and Ringo who did the voices.
But GH & co. does it well too.

by **Bluebird** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 10:42 am

Actually I couldn´t imagine Paul sing "Yellow submarine", I know he wrote it and so on, but it will always be a present from him to Ringo. I think the lyric is dreadful and is one of my worst song I think

But anyway GH does it quite well, deffently agree.

by **kylestyle** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 9:07 pm

Yes I've seen him in Heartbeat as well!

by **theDingle** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 10:09 pm

My wife loves that show, she watches it every Saturday night (lately we've been getting into "Chef!").

by **mclarke825** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 2:26 am

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought it was another "clue" in the Paul is Dead rumours. "Here's another clue for you all, Onslow was Paul!" (Onslow does sort of resemble a walrus a bit!)

Oooh! And the other Beatles were just "Keeping up appearances" when they replaced Paul with Billy Shears! It all fits now!!!

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