Leukemia girl set for reunion with pop idols
00:00, 26 October 2001
A KENT girl who met pop group Right Said Fred nine years ago when she was undergoing treatment for leukemia is to meet her idols again. Sarah Baker, now aged 14, of Old Road, East Peckham, was given the all-clear from the disease in March this year.
Nine years ago she was taken out for lunch and to a recording session by the band, fronted by bald brothers Richard and Fred Fairbrass. The reunion will take place at the Invicta FM Party in the Dark at the Hop Farm, at Beltring, near East Peckham, on Saturday, after Sarah's mother, Sharon, wrote a letter to Penny Williams, the radio station's managing director.
After clearing it with the band, the radio station telephoned Sarah, now a pupil at Mascalls School, Paddock Wood, to tell her about the reunion live on air. Mrs Baker said: "Sarah was really chuffed. The first time it had been organised through St Bartholomew's Hospital in London where she had been receiving treatment.
"Right Said Fred were just really nice genuine blokes. When they met her she was very ill. She was like a stick insect. They had more hair than she did.
"Now, because Sarah's had the all-clear, I wanted her to meet them again so they could see that everything worked out all right and sometimes good things happen.
"So I just wrote this letter - I didn't think anything would come of it, but they've given us VIP tickets and backstage passes."
Right Said Fred were at the height of their fame when they met Sarah in July 1992 after the release of their hit records Deeply Dippy and I'm Too Sexy. They will be joined at the Party in the Dark by Dodgy, Hear'Say and Liberty.
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