In another life, Cliff Richard could have a photo with his hero, Elvis Presley, stuck to his fridge. Imagine! But alas, he doesn’t. Why? Because Cliff Richard is a shallow guy who values looks over all else, apparently. In an interview on ITV’s breakfast show This Morning on Monday, the British crooner stunned presenters Alison Hammond, Dermot O’Leary and, er, Sarah Ferguson, by claiming he once turned down a photo opportunity with Elvis because, as he put it, the King had put on “a lot of weight”.
He had one chance, in the Seventies while he was promoting his single “Devil Woman”. A journalist offered to introduce them after an interview, but after seeing Presley in person, Richard asked to delay it: “I thought if I’m having a photo taken with him, and it’s gonna be hanging on my refrigerator, he’s gotta look good. I put it off, and then, of course then he died.”
