{"id":91551,"date":"2025-08-24T04:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/91551\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T04:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:28:10","slug":"lovely-jubbly-sir-david-jason-85-is-in-great-spirits-as-hes-mobbed-by-fans-before-his-new-show-at-manchesters-lowry-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/91551\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovely jubbly! Sir David Jason, 85, is in great spirits as he’s mobbed by fans before his new show at Manchester’s Lowry Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir David Jason<\/a> was mobbed by adoring fans as he left his hotel in Manchester on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Only Fools and Horses star, 85, happily waved to those waiting outside the hotel, pausing for selfies and to look at a doll of his iconic Del Boy character.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sir David was smartly dressed in a shirt and beige trousers as he made his way to The Lowry Theatre for\u00a0An Evening with Sir David Jason.<\/p>\n

Pitched as an evening of ‘fun, laughter, and never-before-heard stories’, the event was an opportunity for the actor to reflect on his decades-long career and inimitable impact on British television.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tickets for the event started at \u00a348 went all the way up to \u00a393 for fans.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dir David’s career began on Crossroads way back in 1964 when was was still in his 20s, but it was not until 1981 that he was cemented as a national treasure with his role in Only Fools and Horses.<\/p>\n

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Sir David Jason, 85, was mobbed by adoring fans as he left his hotel in Manchester on Saturday<\/p>\n

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The Only Fools and Horses star, 85, happily waved to those waiting outside the hotel, pausing for selfies and to even look at a doll of his iconic Del Boy character<\/p>\n

Derek “Del Boy” Trotter had a long run on screens and it wasn’t until 2002 that Sir David stepped away from the role after his fictional character and his son became millionaires.<\/p>\n

Now celebrating almost 60 years in the spotlight, Saturday’s event was not the first time that Sir David reflected on his career.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The actor’s appearance in Manchester comes after\u00a0BBC Breakfast host Charlie Stayt has revealed what Sir David is really like – as he brought up his ‘outrageous’ behaviour backstage live on the morning news programme.<\/p>\n

The legend joined Charlie and Naga Munchetty in the studio to look back on his illustrious acting career.<\/p>\n

And within moments of sitting down for his interview, an emphatic Charlie mentioned the 85-year-old’s backstage conduct.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Very pleased to say Sir David Jason is right here with us on the sofa with us this morning,’ Charlie began.<\/p>\n

He then added: ‘Can I just describe for our viewers who are watching this morning – you make an entrance.<\/p>\n

‘I was quite impressed. As you came into our studio a moment ago, you were saying hello to everyone – you know how to make an entrance.’<\/p>\n

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Sir David’s career began on Crossroads way back in 1964 when was was still in his 20s, but it was not until 1981 that he was cemented as a national treasure with his role in Only Fools and Horses<\/p>\n

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He was smartly dressed in a shirt and beige trousers as he made his way to The Lowry Theatre for An Evening with Sir David Jason<\/p>\n

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Pitched as an evening of ‘fun, laughter, and never-before-heard stories’, the event was an opportunity for the actor to reflect on his decades-long career and inimitable impact on British television<\/p>\n

Taken aback, the Open All Hours star laughed, saying: ‘Well it’s just that I like to feel comfortable but I like also to, if you can, make the people you’re with comfortable.<\/p>\n

‘The great thing is really to be a little bit outrageous, so everybody is put at ease, it’s a bit of fun.<\/p>\n

‘You know, I said good morning to the camera, and nobody but the camera was there. The camera seemed to like it.’<\/p>\n

The British star went on to discuss the move from his theatre roots to studio filming, and iconic Only Fools And Horses scenes from over the years.<\/p>\n

Only Fools And Horses, the BBC sitcom about two south-east London market trader brothers, won its way into the nation’s hearts as soon as it hit our screens in 1981.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Created by the inimitable late John Sullivan, it starred Sir David Jason as Derek ‘Del Boy’ Trotter and Nicholas Lyndhurst as his little brother Rodney.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir David Jason was mobbed by adoring fans as he left his hotel in Manchester on Saturday.\u00a0 The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,100,134,2017],"class_list":["post-91551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-dailymail","tag-entertainment","tag-tvshowbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}