Meat Loaf - Star Secrets 9th Feb 1999

Thanks to Anne Filmer of the uk fan club we were at the recording of "Star secrets" in London.....

If you look really closely at this pic you can see a few of us in the audience......

The show itself was a bit cheesy to say the least, plus we were all a bit on edge as we were also going to "The Pepsi chart show" which started at 7.30pm & this show was still going on long past then...

It was introduced by Carol Smiley & the first star guest was Peggy Mitchell ( Barbara Windsor) Who's star secret was that she helped someone have a baby.... Don't ask it is a long winded story LOL ...

Then there was Ioan Griffiths whose star secret was singing some song years ago that I really cant remember because by now I was getting really agitated!!!!!!

Eventually it was time for Meat!!! He came out to a big cheer from the crowd (apart from a row or two of French students.. One of them turned around & asked us "what is his job!" We tried to explain but he didn't get it LOL...

Meat came out & was talking about his three films that were due out. His knee surgery & the tour. He said that there were going to be more uk dates. Even though no one knows about them yet.. but he did LOL..

The stars had three clues to get them to a story in there past given to them by someone connected to the story. Meats was given by a lady. His first clue was a bunch of yellow flowers.

To which Meat replied "they're usually red!" Carol Smiley then asked him if he had any idea what the clue meant, he didn't. She then asked him about his wedding. he told a funny story about Todd Rundgren being in charge of filming the wedding & he had left the camera on pause.... So they had no pictures of the wedding. Meat then went on to talk about Pearls wedding & that the woman minister recognised him & couldn't speak properly as she was looking at him the whole time...

Meat then went on to talk about his car parking experience that lead to his role in hair. He was still none the wiser as to what the secret was.....

This still didn't ring any bells with Meat. In fact he just laughed as he had no idea what the secret was. Carol Smiley then told Meat that the lady sitting there the boys mum that Meat had helped get out of a coma. The boy had had a motorbike accident & was in a coma for three months. He was a big fan of Meats & Meat had made him a get well message & sent it to him so he could listen to it. This was played to him constantly & the boys mum said they were convinced that this had helped him come out of the coma. Meat remembered it all as it was being said & said that he had told this story along with another about a girl on many occasions. Meat had also left a message on the tape & this was played to us. It was very moving & Meat said that he had just said what he was feeling..... Meat was presented with a collection of platinum discs from all of the albums. Meat said that Leslie wouldn't let him put any up in the house but he was gonna with that one anyway!!

Meat then joined the band on stage.... Carol said that they were playing Bat Out Of Hell. To which Meat said that he had a secret this was the first time they had ever performed this on TV. While they were playing Kat asked the French student if he knew who Meat was yet but he still didn't!!!!! Meat introduced the whole band, to a huge response from the crowd (well the fan club anyway LOL)

After they had finished Meat presented the boy with a disc but I'm not sure off hand what it was. Sorry to busy thinking about getting out!!!!

As soon as Meat had gone off. We edged our way out followed by all the other Meat fans LOL... The presenter made some comment about us all leaving now Meat had gone!!! By now it was 8.30pm. The Pepsi chart show started at 7.30pm... We all piled into two cars & quickly drove across the other side of London to get to the "Pepsi chart show" Making it there before Meat.