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Speaker 1: martial arts actor and athlete, Chuck Norris passed away. And
Speaker 1: for some of you who are similar kind of age
Speaker 1: and vintage and myself Chuck Norris back in the eighties
Speaker 1: was and the seventies the man. I was a massive
Speaker 1: Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee fan as a kid. Still
Speaker 1: I'm a massive Bruce Lee fan as an adult as well.
Speaker 1: Some things from childhood to stay with you and the
Speaker 1: fight seeing that they had in Way of the Dragon.
Speaker 1: I had that poster on my wall. So two things
Speaker 1: thinking about Chuck Norris passing over the weekend that I
Speaker 1: thought about one of the posters that you had on
Speaker 1: your bedroom wall when you were a kid. What were
Speaker 1: the posters on your bedroom warm? Mine was Chuck Norris
Speaker 1: and Bruce Lee their fight at the Colosseum in Way
Speaker 1: of the Dragon. The other thing is sometimes when you
Speaker 1: when you see a star and you are actually star struck.
Speaker 1: I remember about fifteen years ago. I happened to actually
Speaker 1: see Chuck Norris on the streets of London. Feels like
Speaker 1: a Chunk Norris joke. It actually was marching down Regent
Speaker 1: Street and I couldn't believe it really was Chuck Norris.
Speaker 1: And he was with another martial arts legend as well.
Speaker 1: And if you know you martial arts, you'll know who
Speaker 1: Benny the Jet Aquidas was it propel them walking down.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they've been doing in town. And
Speaker 1: I walked over the street. I wanted to go and
Speaker 1: say hello to Chuck, and then I got within about
Speaker 1: three or four meters and I just froze. I think
Speaker 1: it's the aura and power of Chunk Norris. Then actually
Speaker 1: my weak and testosterone. I think he depleted it like
Speaker 1: a force field. It sort of just reduced me to
Speaker 1: a quaking mess like many of his foes. And so
Speaker 1: I said nothing. I actually had nothing. I was star struck.
Speaker 1: I gut it. I would have loved to have said
Speaker 1: I used to love you movies. I'm gutted and got
Speaker 1: to say anything to Chuck Norris. So today Chuck Norris
Speaker 1: was on my wall. The other thing, this is so sad.
Speaker 1: I used to get this imported American martial arts magazine
Speaker 1: when I as a teenager called Combat magazine, and I
Speaker 1: remember saving up. It was fifty pounds, a lot of
Speaker 1: money as a kid. That saved up for a couple
Speaker 1: of months, and my paper round to get these genes
Speaker 1: that Chunk Norris advertise as Chuck Norris Action Jeans. Still
Speaker 1: got a photo of the advert. I put it on
Speaker 1: it and it was a picture of Chuck Norris right
Speaker 1: wearing cowboy boots, wearing his own bespoke denim jeans and
Speaker 1: kicking a man in the head right roundhousing and luckily
Speaker 1: these genes. I remember. The main bit on the advert
Speaker 1: was it, you know, as a kid, you just don't
Speaker 1: understand anything. You just taken a face value. Now I
Speaker 1: look back, what the hell was a reinforced gusset. It
Speaker 1: had the phrase reassuringly reinforced guss It like maybe a
Speaker 1: couple of times Chuck had gone to roundhouse some near
Speaker 1: dueller and split his pants, and it was like, this
Speaker 1: can never happen again. I need to design genes so
Speaker 1: that members of the public can always be roundhouse ready.
Speaker 1: If you need to throw down against some whoon, you
Speaker 1: don't need to worry about splitting your denim cas. You've
Speaker 1: got the reassurance you reinforce guss It. Maybe we should
Speaker 1: also do this week what you sent off for as
Speaker 1: a kid. You would easily that precious pocket money of yours.
Speaker 1: You know your parents wouldn't know what you were saving
Speaker 1: up for us sending Chuck Norris action jeans so that
Speaker 1: I could be Chuck Norris ready, just as roundhouse anyone
Speaker 1: in the streets. You've always got to be ready for that.
Speaker 1: You never know what situation ready right now, I've got
Speaker 1: to reinforce guss It. It's sadly for medical reasons at
Speaker 1: fifty two. So the memory of the great man Chuck Norris.
Speaker 1: Ever been starstruck? You said nothing when you will confronted
Speaker 1: with someone fame? Have you ever been starstruck? And what
Speaker 1: were the posters on your bedroom wall as a teenage?
Speaker 1: It was Chuck Norris to me, Tina, one of our
Speaker 1: producers on the show, you got starstruck with Ricky Mark
Speaker 1: I did? I met Ricky and he asked me for
Speaker 1: my name. I just couldn't remember my name. Did this happen?
Speaker 1: He was doing CD siding at a local shopping sent
Speaker 1: two years ago. It's with joke, Norris, is it Ricky Martin?
Speaker 1: What's it? He just don't. I just don't. My cold
Speaker 1: shop and it's going to do some some CDs that
Speaker 1: for five in the morning. Why did you don't even
Speaker 1: like there anyone else at five in the morning there
Speaker 1: were I was number two hundred in the line and
Speaker 1: the two hundred Thank god for that. He's back in
Speaker 1: favor again now because of his friendship with Bad Bunny,
Speaker 1: isn't he? I think so? Yeah, he did. The performance
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl was great. So you go up
Speaker 1: there to get your CD signed by Ricky Martin and
Speaker 1: you just you've got nothing to say. I went blank,
Speaker 1: and I wanted him to sign it for my mum
Speaker 1: for Mother's Day. So I wanted her name, and I
Speaker 1: couldn't remember her name, remember my name? My friend had
Speaker 1: to be like, oh, her name's Tina, and then he
Speaker 1: would started writing TEENA. I was like, no, Maria, you
Speaker 1: need to write Maria, and he didn't. He looked at
Speaker 1: me confused. That's great, all right. So two ways to
Speaker 1: get in touch with the show This Morning star struck.
Speaker 1: You met a celebrity, you could say nothing me Chuck, Norris, Tinu,
Speaker 1: Ricky Martin wa'ts yours and posters on your teenage bedroom
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