Richard Wilkins grabs nervously at his palms earlier than lowing his voice as he speaks.
Moments earlier, the 9 Leisure Editor was gesturing wildly as he spoke of being interviewed “a very long time in the past” by fellow New Zealander and mannequin Rachel Hunter.
Nonetheless, whereas talking a few second throughout that very same interview, Wilkins’s physique language modifications.
“Rachel Hunter, the very stunning, fantastic and beautiful New Zealand mannequin, who was married to Rod Stewart on the time, was doing a collection for TV,” Wilkins tells 9Celebrity within the newest episode of Dickie’s Diaries.
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The TV collection was on New Zealanders “who’re doing OK”, Wilkins recalled..
“She did one thing with Sam Neil, Neil Finn and Russell Crowe, all the same old offenders… and myself,” he mentioned modestly.
The Australian-New Zealand singer-turned-journalist then recalled how midway via the interview Hunter all of the sudden revealed one thing that took him off-guard. It resulted in Wilkins experiencing his first “fan boy” second.
“She mentioned ‘Oh, Rod’s been studying about you… he was fairly all in favour of a few issues,” Wilkins recalled.
As Wilkins speaks in regards to the second, he clasped his palms and narrowed his shoulders.
“Once I began out singing, I kinda half wished to be Rod Stewart,” he mentioned, his voice nearly a whisper.
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“, the hair, I placed on a shawl, however after all I did not have the voice, or the expertise, or the songs, or anything. However that did not cease me desirous to be Rod Stewart, and I’ll have talked about that to a few folks within the early days….”
In Wilkins view, the Maggie Might singer appeared to have near the final word life-style.
“Travelling round, kicking soccer balls, making a lot of cash, married to a stupendous Kiwi mannequin… appeared like not a nasty choice,” he mentioned.
Wilkins then returned to discussing his interview with Hunter and the way, impulsively, a determine appeared, pacing in the direction of him.
It was Stewart. He walked straight as much as Wilkins with questions on the prepared.
“You need to be like me? Why would you need to be like me? … It’s kind of cheeky, is not it, saying you need to be like me?” Wilkins recalled Stewart saying.
“I mentioned ‘Oh, no I…’ [and] he mentioned, ‘No, I am simply kidding.”
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Wilkins then mentioned Stewart requested how issues had been going with Hunter and whether or not Wilkins was being good to her. Then he supplied an invite.
“He mentioned, ‘Excellent, come and have a drink with us afterwards,” Wilkins mentioned.
“And I used to be like, ‘Oh my god, that was truly Rod Stewart.”
Wilkins mentioned he and Stewart stay “fairly good pals” to this present day.
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