Reg gutteridge autobiography meaning
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Reg Gutteridge recalls his experience of This Is Your Life in his autobiography, Uppercuts and Dazes...
When Michael Aspel thrust his red book in front of my face and said: 'Reg Gutteridge, this is your life', the first thought to flash through my mind was: 'I could'a been somebody.
I could'a been a contender'.
That line was, of course, the classic delivered by Marlon Brando when he played a failed boxer in my favourite film On The Waterfront which was written by my old mate Budd Schulberg.
I wondered what my old dad would have thought if he could have seen his only son's story being shown to millions.
Reg gutteridge autobiography meaning
He probably would have said something like: 'Blimey, I breed a boxer and I wind up with a luvvie, instead.' But he would have been proud. I know that I was proud of him.
I was utterly gobsmacked when I realised what was happening to me...
I was set up by the show's scriptwriter, Norman Giller, who telephoned and asked whether I could rescue him with a 'voice-over' job at Ted