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Fred Gee (left), former bar master of Coronation Street's Returned Rover, liked nothing more than to stand behind the bar on a Wednesday night between 7 and 7.30 in the 1970s drawing on a Castella with his legs akimbo. It made him feel like the cock of the walk.
Michael Winner, director of classics like Polyester and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, was something of a cigar hoover. He would spend up to three weeks on a diet of artichokes and Ryvita knocked back with Martell in great glasses. His physicians finally decided the cigars were doing him too much good, so advised him to stop smoking and be fucking miserable. It took Michael a long time to get off cigars and into dire adverts. In the period of his transition, he bought a special K-Tel mini hoover and ordered his housemaid to chase him and his ash all around his mansion. When his maid passed away from trivial pursuits, the ash mounted up to the parlour windowsills and Michael could barely feel the artichokes. One day he decided to phone his old soundstage mates at Pinewood and ask them to help out. Two weeks later, the props guys placed the wind machines on his front doorstep and blew all ashes and cigars away. Michael no longer craves Montecristos as in the past, but his quality of life is perpetually turned up to 11 via Prozac cakes. All of which is God's singular way of telling us never ever to give these bitches up.
After a night out with Miriam Margoyles, Julie Andrews decided her lesbian chic would be double-underlined by sculpting her head and hair in a tight-slicked Spandau Ballet way. She was fed up by being perceived as eternally sugary so used the cigar to give her the air of a hard bastard. Don't know about you, but I use my stick as a male phallic boast'n'threat, and it's all Julie's fault.
After 18 months at sea gathering the grand leaf for the good folk of England, Sir Walter Raleigh was anxious to be reunited with his good lady Elizabeth.
He hadn't had any sex for ages, apart from when on the occasional foray into the bowels of his ship looking for the elusive Golden Rivet with Jim, the cabin boy.
On reaching his home he dashed up the stairs, his tunic bulging with the finest tobacco. Elizabeth took one look at him and uttered the immortal phrase, still in common use today "Is that a Robusto in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?"
Condoleeza Rice would be dispatched in Air Force 1 by George Bush on secret missions. He liked her to doll up as Prince circa Lovesexy and lob stogies at the boys stationed overseas.
After 18 months at sea gathering the grand leaf for the good folk of England, Sir Walter Raleigh was anxious to be reunited with his good lady Elizabeth.
He hadn't had any sex for ages, apart from when on the occasional foray into the bowels of his ship looking for the elusive Golden Rivet with Jim, the cabin boy.
On reaching his home he dashed up the stairs, his tunic bulging with the finest tobacco. Elizabeth took one look at him and uttered the immortal phrase, still in common use today "Is that a Robusto in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?"
The Dandy and man about town Beau Brummel was often to be seen visiting the more auspiscious alehouses in Old London Town, with a view to dallying awhile with his drinking and smoking friends, and casting a lecherous eye over the buxom serving wenches.
One night a red headed filly caught his attention, she soon became aware of his admiring glances and sidled up to him. ?Ere mister? she said, ?What?s that sticking out of your Doublet and Hose??
?That? he replied ?Is my Hoyo De Monterrey???
?Cor?it?s big init?? she ejaculated
?Well?.It is a Double Corona ? he replied. ?Besides..I?m from Hampton Court???we?ve all got big ones down there?
?Can I feel it?? she asked
?No?No, They?re far too expensive, You only get two for a penny, so it?s never far from my right hand?
Hence the expression ?Keep your hand on your halfpenny?
The Cohiba cigar began when these cigars were smoked by Bienvenido "Chicho" Perez, a confidant and bodyguard of Fidel Castro. Castro took notice of the frequent smoking by Chicho and commented that it was a very nice, aromatic cigar. When Castro asked him, Chicho said they were rolled by a friend and he would get Castro some as gifts.
Eduardo Rivera was the man rolling the cigars and he was working in the La Corona factory. Castro immediately contacted Rivera and asked him to roll some cigars for him. He then set him up in a mansion with 5 other rollers within the suburb of Havana called El Laguito. This factory would become the first factory only staffed by women torcedoras. For a significant period of time, the cigars were only for Castro himself and various other esteemed Cuban officials. They were also presented to foreign dignitaries as gifts often. Castrol became fond of the Corona Especial and Lancero types.
In 1982 and in combination with the World Cup being showcased in Spain, Castro released his personal cigars as exquisite and premium cigars to the public.
The cigars George Peppard smoked in the TV series "Banacek" were actually George Peppard's private stock of hand-made panatelas from Club 21 in New York... and they were the same cigars he smoked as "Hannibal Smith" in "The A-Team" 1983. After he died they have since been passed on to his old A-Team mate Dirk Benidect, who later took them into the Celebrity Big Brother house in 2007. He had told the Big Brother producers "no cigars, no Benedict" as part of the deal to appear on the show. He duly arrived at the show in the A-Team van chomping on his cigar!
Other Celebrity Big Brother housemates also enjoyed a number of other cigar links such as Ken Russell who is an avid smoker and Leo Sayer who's song " The show must go on" contains the lyric "All the wild men with big cigars and gigantic cars"
One other housemate Ian "H" Watkins (The gay one from the pop group Steps) had also been rumoured to have had "his mouth round a couple of fat cubans" from time to time!!
The cigars George Peppard smoked in the TV series "Banacek" were actually George Peppard's private stock of hand-made panatelas from Club 21 in New York... and they were the same cigars he smoked as "Hannibal Smith" in "The A-Team" 1983. After he died they have since been passed on to his old A-Team mate Dirk Benidect, who later took them into the Celebrity Big Brother house in 2007. He had told the Big Brother producers "no cigars, no Benedict" as part of the deal to appear on the show. He duly arrived at the show in the A-Team van chomping on his cigar!
Other Celebrity Big Brother housemates also enjoyed a number of other cigar links such as Ken Russell who is an avid smoker and Leo Sayer who's song " The show must go on" contains the lyric "All the wild men with big cigars and gigantic cars"
One other housemate Ian "H" Watkins (The gay one from the pop group Steps) had also been rumoured to have had "his mouth round a couple of fat cubans" from time to time!!
" I love it when a plan comes together"
I love A-Team trivia facts. This beauty doubles as A-Team Fact/Cigar Fact. Nicely done.
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