AndyGB

A bit of a long one, but just echoing what everyone else has said, but she was lovely and the sole reason I actually went to LFCC (I was the chap cos-playing as 'middle aged IT manager who has nipped out of the office for a few hours'). I wanted to get a picture of her as Kate from Upstart Crow signed for my mum as I took my mum to a couple of the recordings of the last series of Upstart which was a few months after she'd had a cancer diagnosis and only 10 days after she'd had a tumour removed from her brain (but she was adamant she was going to the recording despite her head being almost completely bandaged !) and I was struggling with thoughts that mum might not be around to see the shows broadcast. But anyway, the day before the recording I was getting lunch from a place near the ITV studios and I took someones tea instead of my coffee, only to get an 'oye oye' from a women with what looked like a blue shower cap on her head who's tea I was nicking. I did the 'is it/isn't it' thing but didn't say anything but the day after the recording tweeted Gemma to see if it was her, and it was. Then, serendipitously, no more than two hours later Gemma tweeted about an episode of Griefcast she had done with Cariad Lloyd about loosing her dad to cancer the year before which really helped me with what I was going through and based on that we had a long twitter exchange about what was happening with mum. Amazingly when I got her to sign the photo Gemma remembered me and my mum and was asking how she was, how I and my dad were coping and quite frankly was a damn fine human being !