This weekend it was my infinate pleasure to meet the legendary Zoe Harriot. Quite possably one of the nicest Doctor Who people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. Being Staff at my local sci-fi con I was blessed to meet her even before the con started.
She arrived on Wednsday even though the con did not start until friday. So spending a few extra nights in the hotel was not bad especally when you got to spend them with a legend like Henry Winkler aka The Fonz. Who by the way was also adorable and pleasant beyond belife.
During our first meeting I had informed her that I had been requesting her presence since my very first con, a little fangirl of me? Maybe so but true none the less and she was very suprised to find that she had such a large fanbase here in the USA.
During my time with her I lerned several things. First she and I are the same height. I lerned she has a daughter and a 5yr and a 4yr old grandchildren. She recently moved to france so she could be closer to her family, but still has a bit of trubble holding real conversations with people.
Patrick troughton and Wendy wereboth very scared of sci fi cons but one day she recives a call from pat saying.."guess what I have been to the states.....and guess what I wen't to a sci-fi convention......and guess what I LOVED IT! You should go to one!" While she never attended a sci fi con with troughton it was his and John Pertwee's continous nagging that finally landed her at her very first convention. She quickly found that they were right and has continued although with limited apperances to attend. A fact that her daughter still can't undertand.
I lernt that while she was on Doctor Who she would visit her sister and her nephew to wach the airing of the program. This bewilderd and confused her nephew who would look at the screen and then at aunt Wendy then at the screen again utterly bewilderd. Her parents meanwhile treated it like another job to her would go out and tell everyone they knew that their little girl was in Doctor Who.
Zoe had a leather outfit with lace up the sides of the pants, when the artist showed her the sketch she wanted to know if she could keep the outfit but the BBC said no, as a result Wendy and the seamstress whent shopping for the materials and wendy paid for it all so she could keep it. Later she gave the coustume to the British equvelant of a GoodWill.
While on a rehersal for Docor Who they took the cast to a church, Wendy having stayed up to late the night before fell asleep in her chair flanked but Troughton and Hines. A little while later she was being nudged by both sides with to them saying Padds your on your on it's your shot. To wich she jucped right up out of the chair and started forward only to realize that while she slept the two men had unbuckled the kilt she was earing and she was now standing there in the nikkers. She wnt flying threw the doors and ran right in to the vicar..curtsied, and continued to run away.
After doctor who wendy was given a role in a play with John pertwee. As his little sister, while she stayed learning her lines John came to a convention in the USA. When he got back a week later he was very far behind and proceeded to cover the fact by saying I dont think my charater would have said that and gave allmost all his lines to Wendy who's charater was only a bit part, but in the end became the largest role in the play. Padbury also did a Dactor Who play that while it was filmed no footage nor any other sign of it's existance has ever surfaced.
After leaving acting she became an agent, and one of her clients happend to be in a play with David Tennant. Being the good agent she went to checkin on hr client and that her contract was being honerd. She saw Tennant standing near a doorway, she herself being a large fan of his from other plays he had been in was to nervous to say hi. Finally her client came over and said there is someone here who wants to meet you come with me, and shure enough she walked straight up to David. Both were awstruck at the others mere presance, and both felt equally honerd to meet the other. The fist thing out of his mouth was Oh My God I am such a huge fan of yours!! and she was like Don't be silly! In the end we both agreed that Tennent was dead sexy.
That accompanied with 2 parties, dinner, and an exchange of e-mail addresses made my weekend. So much stuff I am hardly even sure I made a dent in it.
