{"id":340291,"date":"2025-12-29T02:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T02:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340291\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T02:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T02:43:05","slug":"he-was-told-no-but-asked-john-lennon-and-george-harrison-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340291\/","title":{"rendered":"He was told ‘no’ but asked John Lennon and George Harrison anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man’s parents restaurant bill ended up being worth more than he thought<\/p>\n

20:48, 28 Dec 2025Updated 20:55, 28 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

\"TheThe bill was a ‘valuable’ family item worth between \u00a31-1.5k(Image: BBC iPlayer)<\/p>\n

An Antiques Roadshow guest was adamant that an item signed by John Lennon and George Harrison is ‘not going anywhere’ despite its \u00a31,000 to \u00a31,500 value. On Sunday night’s episode of the show (December 28) Fiona Bruce presented a showcase of ‘unseen treasures’ from Trentham Gardens in Staffordshire.<\/p>\n

Throughout the show, valuable items included a rare Shamshir sword and a painting by George Leslie Hunter. Plus, Fiona’s antiques knowledge was also put to the test with three pieces of pottery with Cubist designs, and ceramics expert John Sandon chatted about his life in antiques.<\/p>\n

One man showcased a restaurant bill from his parents dated in 1965, that at first Marc Allum described as ‘unremarkable’. It wasn’t until the man explained that his parents were joined by some ‘interesting people’ in the London restaurant – who were none other than John Lennon and George Harrison.<\/p>\n

Marc Allum said: “So this looks like a pretty unremarkable restaurant bill from Parks restaurant in Beauchamp Place in London, what’s going on with it?”<\/p>\n

\"TheThe bill was signed by John Lennon and George Harrison (Image: BBC iPlayer)<\/p>\n

When explaining the backstory, the man said: “My parents had a very special anniversary dinner, and my father said to the restaurant ma\u00eetre d’ can I have their signature?” after spotting the Beatles stars tucking into their dinner.<\/p>\n

He continued: “The ma\u00eetre d’ responded ‘we don’t do that in this restaurant’ and he stuck it in front of them anyway.<\/p>\n

“They were more than delighted to sign it, and off he went on this way.” Antiques Roadshow expert Marc Allum than asked if the John and George were ‘regulars’ in the restaurant, to which the guest replied: “Apparently it was one of their favourite restaurants.”<\/p>\n

Onto the price, despite the item being ‘valuable to the family’, Marc explained how the ‘first hand account’ of it would increase its value entirely.<\/p>\n

George said: “You know that they’re really genuine these signatures, so it worth \u00a31k to \u00a31.5k”<\/p>\n

Despite its high price tag, the guest was sure he wouldn’t let it go to auction, and replied: “Okay well, everybody says that, but it’s not going anywhere so.”<\/p>\n

Antiques Roadshow airs on BBC One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man’s parents restaurant bill ended up being worth more than he thought 20:48, 28 Dec 2025Updated 20:55,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3914,243,96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-340291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-antiques-roadshow","9":"tag-bbc","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}