10th August Olivia Newton....Gone.


Millions of middle aged, paunch packing men, who mentally still imagine themselves as looking just as hot and desireable as renegade rebel Danny Zuko, are today wondering if in tribute to the death of Olivia Newton John, their wallflower of a wide / girlfriend is going to undergo a similar Grease style transformation and ditch the pastal coloured cardigans for a pair of spray on spandex pants.

58 year old Terry Towling of Hucknall Nottingham, who still sees himself as 'a bit of a catch' spoke exclusively to Grace Under Pressure about how he hoped that sitting through the 106 minute DVD of this 1950's nostaglia trip  might result in his prim and proper girlfriend, Shirley Shewill, wanting to get 'physical' .

"Don't get me wrong," explained bad boy Terry, "I wouldn't swap Shirley for anything, anybody possibly but definitly not anything. No serioulsy I'm hopelessly devoted to her. She's my squeeze, my girl, my sweetheart but sometimes she is, how can I put this, a little bit drab and dreary, just like Sandy in Grease. I've managed to maintain my quiff, my sideburns, even the old leather jacket I wore when we first started courting. I mean who wouldn't wanna get a bit of this greased lightening"

Unfortunatly for Terry there are two sides fo every story and in an even more exclusive interview Shirley Shewill revealed a very diffferent take on proceddings. "Let's get physical? Meta physical more like. I'm not saying that Terry is a bit past his 'best before date' but these days whenever he sings 'You're the one that I want' he's  referring to the time he spends searching in his daily pill dispenser box trying to distinguish between his vitamins and his Viagra.  Summer lovin happened so fast...not recently it didn't!"



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