How were you presented with the red book for the show This Is Your Life?
That was actually so clever. So see, what happened is they caught me outside the palace after I'd received my O.B.E., and there was a camera there, and they said, "Trevor, we'd just like to ask you what it's like to receive an O.B.E.?" And I'm standing there in camera, and Michael Aspel came along with the red book, you see, and so he caught me at Canada Gate outside the palace, and said, "This is an invention of our own. Trevor Bayliss, This is Your Life." And I went, "Ooooohhhh!" And I thought it was such an honor, such a privilege. Such a thrill. I mean to be singled out like that, and for them to spend all that money bringing all your mates and all your pals together on a set. Oh! They actually put my mate, Johnny Pugh, who owns a circus called Clyde Beatty Cole Brothers in America. They actually put the entire circus troupe up, on camera, for me to see them working out, building a pyramid, the sort of a pyramid that I would have appeared in, with him, as a lad. And then he turned up on the set on the show, and as he came into the doorway, he put his hand in a straddle position, like that, because I used to do a back somersault. Or he'd either do a back somersault off my hands, or I'd do one off his. It was what they called a walk up: you put your foot in, you just throw a back somersault. We used to do that all the time. Whereas, you and I, we shake hands, we'd do a back somersault. That was part of us, and so of course when he turned up on the set he went, "Come on, Trev!" I didn't do it, believe me, but it just took me down memory lane. We were such show-offs, as to be unreal, but what fun it was. That was marvellous, it really was.
