Outside of her work with Benny, Sue's work in show business included a bit of pantomime (that is, the British holiday entertainment - not the Marcel Marceau-type of pantomime) at the very beginning of her career; a mid-70s musical, Kingdom Coming, about a group of hippies who are cryogenically frozen in the hope of being revived in a better future; a BBC kids' show, a musical set in a children's café; and The Boys and Mrs B, a pilot show starring Thora Hird.³ In this, Sue played "Jackie," a member of a local teenage gang! How about that? Our sweet, innocent-looking Sue, playing a gang member! That must have been quite a "stretch" for her as an actress. According to Sue, The Boys and Mrs B was set to become a series, but plans for it fell through at the last minute.

Besides this, Sue made two movies, both sex comedies: Confessions from a Holiday Camp (which, Ian informed me, was fairly good, as these films go) and What's Up Superdoc! I know Confessions is available on video (because I've got a copy), but I'm not sure about Superdoc. She did various commercials as well.

Some time ago, I noticed that when doing a search for "Sue Upton" on Google or another search engine, two main types of webpages come up: those having to do with The Benny Hill Show (which of course refer to "our" Sue), and pages referring to rowing and triathlons. Naturally I wondered: could the Sue Upton, the dedicated rower and triathlete, be our Sue? After all, she and the other Angels once danced to a song called "Keep Young And Beautiful," a paean to exercise. Maybe, I thought, she took the words to heart.

I can now say that our Sue isn't the rower and triathlete. (Ian thinks the athletic Sue might be the other Sue Upton listed in the Internet Movie Database, who's on the production end of things in the British film and TV industry.) Sue described herself as being "useless at sport," but she does like to play, as well as watch, tennis. She's also a big boxing fan, especially of the current heavyweight champion, Lennox Lewis! I suggested that she could be a ring-card girl for his next fight; she gave me a big smile, and mimed holding up a round card.

Naturally, I took this opportunity to tell her about my own involvement with boxing, as an amateur referee and judge, and a professional judge. Everyone I meet, bar none, is always very surprised when I tell them about this aspect of my life, and Sue was no exception! So Sue and I had a little chat about boxing, of all things. She's a knowledgeable and dedicated fan of "the sweet science." (Benny, she said, was also a boxing fan - particularly of Hungarian-born British heavyweight, Joe Bugner.)

Besides watching boxing, and playing and watching tennis, Sue also enjoys traveling in her spare time. Between Christmas and New Years, she and her family will be on holiday in Mombasa, Kenya. Her husband plays in a Beach Boys tribute band, and has landed a gig down there at that time. Sue and her family came to the western US last spring, where they visited Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon. She enjoyed the trip very much, and would like to return to the West, particularly to visit Lake Tahoe and Yellowstone National Park. I recommended Chicago and Reno, Nevada, to her as places she might enjoy visiting in the future.