Last night I went to see the cricketer Freddie Flintoff in
his show 2nd Innings with my friend Ando. The show was about his
career from the 2005 Ashes where he became a national hero to present day where
he most recently was on the Australian version of I’m a Celeb.
From start to finish I was laughing non-stop, lots of
cricket jokes, lots of funny anecdotes and great cricket clips. His friend
Clyde Holcroft guided the whole thing and did a great job, he really let the
whole thing be about Freddie. One of the best stories was how Freddie is bad
with names and after a taping of A League of Their Own they went to a bar and
he got talking to Theo Walcott. He tried his best with conversation, talking
about England Arsenal and upon leaving Freddie said to James Corden how nice
Theo was. James then replied it wasn’t Theo Walcott, it was Marvin from JLS.
After the show Ando and I hung around in the foyer to see if
we could meet Jack Whitehall as he was in the audience, but we didn’t get a
glimpse. Instead we saw Merv Hughes (an Aussie Cricketer) and Frank Skinner. We
then went round to the stage door to see if we could meet Freddie and to our
surprise there were only half a dozen people waiting. One of them was a guy
called Jordan and he was a very big cricket fan. He’d brought lots of cricket
programmes that he wanted signing.
We didn’t realise but while we were waiting, Freddie was
doing an organised meet and greet for a around a hundred people, so when he
came out he was very tired. But he still took the time to have pictures taken
and sign all those programmes for Jordan (which took forever, you could tell he
was getting annoyed.) It was great to meet him as a few weeks ago me and my
flatmate Charlotte were 6 people from the front of the queue to be in the
audience for A League of Their Own.
And we saw a bonus celebrity in Richard Curtis. He came out
of stage door while we were waiting. I told Jordan who it was and he ran after
him and got a picture with him.
So 3 hours of entertainment and meeting another cricketer,
all for £15! Not a bad Monday night.
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