Tales of daring do. The Medium Mark A Whippet was to see its first combat on the 26th of March 1918 at Mailly-Maillet, north of Albert, France. It had been considered to send Whippets to the Army in Palestine too but that didnât happen.
And this is before Tess read The Secret.â. Tess, of course, is Tess Daly, the lovely co-host of Strictly Come Dancing, Vernonâs wife of 11 years and the mother of their two daughters, Phoebe, nine, and Amber, four.
The oldest of two boys born to truck driver Norman and his wife Gladys near Bolton, Vernon â who shot up to 6ft 4in in his teens, leaving him with stretch marks from his hip to his thigh â stumbled into TV when he was working as a model after being âspottedâ by a leading agency.