Don't they look young: Well, we all did once. The fresh-faced stars as we first knew them
Their faces are so familiar you have to remind yourself they were youngsters once. Now, a photographic archive has shed light on the early days of celebrities. Off-guard moments, opportunistic snapshots and iconic scenes from TV shows are in a new book of pictures — including some they might like to forget — taken for the Radio Times.
Moodily magnificent: Years before Mr Darcy, 28-year-old Colin Firth promoted the Falklands War drama Tumbledown in 1988
Key player: Award-winning actress Emma Thompson as a 29-year-old in 1988, a year before she wed Kenneth Branagh
Tough but tender: Newsnight’s former fearsome interrogator Jeremy Paxman is a bashful 47 in 1997; Cambridge double act: Stephen Fry (left) and Hugh Laurie have a golden future ahead in this Eighties portrait
Rise and shine: The elaborate shot was taken to mark chirpy 26-year-old DJ Chris Evans’s arrival on Channel 4’s Big Breakfast in 1992. The ginger enfant terrible returned to radio three years later for a controversial spell on Radio 1
Sweet treat: Bake Off’s Sue Perkins (left) and Mel Giedroyc, aged 30 and 31, were budding BBC comedy stars back in 1999
Slow starter: Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson models his ‘just got out of bed’ look in the mid-Nineties. The ‘congratulations on your new baby girl’ card suggests it was when his daughter Emily was born. Clarkson, then in his mid-30s, celebrates with tea, or is it whisky?
Surprise, surprise: Down-to-earth Cilla Black gets on with the washing-up in this early Seventies photo. Still in her 30s, Cilla had transformed herself from a Merseybeat pop singer to the TV star we know today. Is that one of her own songs she’s turning up?
Getting lippy: Blonde siren Ulrika Jonsson in her 20s. Her private life’s had many lip-biting moments
Likely lads: Saturday night stars Ant and Dec were 20-year-old children’s TV stalwarts back in 1996; Sultry: Cherie Lunghi, aged 28, in 1980. Fifteen years later, a poll still ranked the actress among ‘the world’s 100 sexiest women’
The photographs are taken from the new book: Radio Times: From The Archive, £25.
It is available only from the Radio Times Shop.
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