One of the latest guest announcements for Andercon is actress and singer Ayshea who appeared as one of the control room SHADO operatives in UFO.
In this scene from UFO episode, 'Confetti Check A-O-K , Lt Ayshea Johnson is enjoying a cigar, much to the amusement of Col.Alec Freeman, Lt. Keith Ford and proud new father, Lt. Grey.
As part of the publicity of UFO, Ayshea appeared in a photo shot for the 1970 TV Times special, Christmas with the Stars, with actor Michael Billington, UFO's Col. Foster, featuring the fashions in UFO.
Ayshea, or Ayshea Brough as she is also known, was certainly popular with blokes like me growing up during the early seventies in the UK. She appeared in Pantomimes and summer shows and was a popular cabaret act. She was a recording artist with several albums and singles to her name. She was briefly engaged to Wizzard's, Roy Wood , who wrote and produced one of her singles, 'Farewell'.
She had a regular pop column in the Look - In Magazine, and presented the TV pop show, Lift-Off with Ayshea.
I did do a short post way back in October, 2013 on Ayshea, coincidently, with a mention to Jamie to sign her up for Andercon : 2014
http://projectswordtoys.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/lift-off-with-ayshea.html
Well it looks like for Andercon: 2015 I got my wish.
Ayshea was and I imagine still is stunningly beautiful. She was one of that Sixties and Seventies generation of talented Music, TV and film femaile personalities who were just amazingly good looking: Ayshea, Diana Rigg, Anita Harris, Lynsey De Paul, Jenny Agutter, Valerie Leon, Caroline Munro, Ingrid Pitt, Madeline Smith.... the list goes on! I loved watching Lift Off with Ayshea and her spots in Look In were high points of the week along with the Kung Fu strip. Its great she's still around and going to Andercon. Does Gabrielle Drake do the conventions too Scoop?
ReplyDeleteI believe Gabrielle Drake has done conventions in the past, Woodsy. I believe she attended a Fanderson one in 2000.
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