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I'm A Celeb's Rev Richard Coles unrecognisable as 80s pop star when 'girls threw knickers at him'


Long before his church career, I'm A Celeb's Reverend Richard Coles was a pop star with singles topping the charts in the 80s and girls even threw knickers at him

Although they achieved a top 30 song on their debut album, their biggest hit cam a year later when they covered Thelma Houston’s Don’t Leave Me This Way. He added: “Never in the history of recorded sound did a girl throw her knickers at a band to less effect than to The Communards, I think Jimmy made a scrunchie out of a pair of them and that was it.” Oti and Richard listened as former professional boxer Barry McGuigan told the camp he had won the Commonwealth Games gold medal when he was 17 (Image: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)She said: “Coming back into Heathrow Airport it was mayhem, the security had to drag us onto a bus because there were swamps of people.

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