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Real Life Lovejoy
"We're not the dead spit of each other but we are both olive-coloured and have dark hair." - David Dickinson -
"I Like Proper Clothes"
David Dickinson's TV break came when by chance he met a BBC TV producer at
a barbecue. He asked David what he did for a living and on hearing his reply
the producer exclaimed with amusement 'You're the real life Lovejoy!' In his
early TV career, producers even wanted David to dress the part, in blue jeans
and leather gillets. Thank goodness he resisted. "Just not me. I like
proper clothes." David says. And what clothes! Wonderful hand sewn suits
in an array of colours and styles. Pinstripes and plain, single and double
breasted. Occasionally he wears blazer and flannels. He always wears a tie
on TV these days, but in the first series of Bargain Hunt we did see him in
polo neck sweaters, on those chilly winter morning shoots. There was also
a quite outlandish overcoat and a sedate mackintosh.
David's shoes are stunning too, not just because they're a stately size 11,
but because they always co-ordinate with his whole outfit, which may call
for beige shinny leather.He's been known to travel 200 miles to buy a tie.
Keep an eye out too for a flash of monogrammed shirt cuff, as if you needed
a guarantee of the quality of those colourful shirts.
He's older than me!" - David Dickinson -
"What Do You Think?"
So if Lovejoy and Mr Dickinson don't share David's sartorial elegance what do they share? Lovejoy is best known to us as the lovable rogue antiques dealer as personified by Ian McShane in the BBC TV series which first aired in 1986, (and can currently be seen on UK Gold2) and I surmise that it is a passing likeness to Ian McShane's Lovejoy that draws the comparison.(Coincidentally Mr McShane was born just a few months before David and not many miles away in Blackburn).The flowing curly locks, the dark and tanned good looks, the sparkly eyes, the irrepressible charm.
- David Dickinson -
See For Yourself
I think you'll agree that there is a facial resemblance between them. But there's no denying that David Dickinson is an authentic original.
Literally Lovejoy
Bu Lovejoy was not a made for TV character. He started life as a character
in a book published in 1976 'The Judas Pair' and now features in over
twenty titles. He is the creation of author Johnathan Gash a working medical
Doctor, who drew on his experience gained selling antiques on the Portebello
market in his student days.
Ian McShane's characterization cleaned up and toned down the original
as well as aging him considerable. The Lovejoy of the novels is in his
early to mid twenties, with a randy reputation and apparently as McShane
himself observed "offensive to women".
Now that could never be David Dickinson, he's always very polite and charming
to the, 'Ladies, may I call you girls'.!
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