Your very random Whiteley sory of the day
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The first time I went to the Flying Pizza restaurant in Leeds he was there. After the meal, as we were stood outside waiting for the taxi he came out with his partner and i was shoved forward to ask for his autograph.
He was extremely jovial adn pleasant and signed two autographs - one as Richard Whiteley and one as John Whiteley which was his real name. He then said "you're not a proper Tyke (yorkshire-man) are you?"
I replied I was and prepared to prove it by reciting, from heart, the Yorkshire Pledge of Alligance. He said "you can;t be, you missed a free meal. If you had asked before they cleared your pudding plates, you would have been thrown out of the restaurant. That way you could have got an autograph and a free meal!!!!!"
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