Rikki and Me

KATE FULTON

CATEGORY SCOTTISH/BIOGRAPHY
PUB DATE OCT 2004
ISBN 1 84502 003 0
EXTENT 256 pp.
PRICE £ 15.99
FORMAT 234 x 156 mm, HBK
ILLUSTRATION 8 pp. B/W




Born Audrey Matheson Craig-Brown Can you wonder I later changed it? Kate Fulton fell hopelessly in love with Rikki when she saw him in a production of Noel Cowards Hayfever. At the time, he was married and she was only fourteen but that didnt stop her from dreaming that one day they could be together.

In Rikki and Me, Kate tells her story from her awkward childhood, early acting career and work as an STV announcer, through to her first marriage to Graham Roberts, now a well-known actor on Radio 4s The Archers, and then onwards until her adolescent dream comes true and she finally marries Rikki.

And then the fun really starts as were treated to some of those behind-the-scenes stories which never made it into Rikkis own autobiography, Is It That Time Already?. Stories from the Francie and Josie days with Jack Milroy, of professional rivalries and of days carousing with well-known personalities like Sean Connery as they lived the celebrity showbiz life. We also find out what it was like to live with a comic genius and about the later years as Rikki and Kate struggled to cope with Rikkis Alzheimers and his steady decline in health until his death in January 2004.

A funny, touching and revealing account of life with one of Scotlands favourite entertainers.