life is too short to fall out with people but Bolam has kept it up for half a century. The man is a prick.

What’s with the robot voice? So heartless on every level!

@jamesunsworth6865

3 жыл бұрын

Why do you persist in the robotic bloody voice!!! It’s shite.

Heard the robotic voice, paused video, disliked, made this comment then left.

I always remember both actors for the parts they play in this particular comedy. It's one of my favourite all time classics. I'm 53 now. When I left school at 16,I went to work in a garage fitting tyres. Bewes came in,in his big car. I didn't know who he was in them days. He was so polite. Lol I didn't get a tip tho.a

In the show Terry was the fun-loving, happy-go-lucky, down-to-earth one while Bob was the more pretentious, stuck-up, snobbish one. Yet in real life it seems to be the exact reverse. How ironic!

@ruthbashford3176

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewjohnston2850 What did Bewes say about Bolam's daughter?

@andrewjohnston2850

2 жыл бұрын

@@ruthbashford3176 had a few when i posted that really need to delete it, Bewes told the press the story of Bolam finding out his wife was pregnant

Love the Likely Lads its timeless work..what a shame we dont write or make funny shows like that anymore. Theres a lack of creative talent in the later generations. Two brilliant actors, sadly one gone but one still treasured.

@MarkHarrison733

9 ай бұрын

TV is obsolete.

I meet Rodney at a convention in 2011 he was superb and awesome Rodney was a bit shy talking to fans and he was still friendly

@richardoliver2930

3 жыл бұрын

I met him in edinburgh he was a lovely man I always wanted to meet him and I got my wish

@ruthbashford3176

2 жыл бұрын

@@richardoliver2930 I've heard that James Bolam is just the opposite and is pretty unpleasant. If that is true he found the perfect match in his wife, Susan Jameson, who didn't even want to know her own son who she gave up for adoption when he was born.

@scottandrewbrass1931

2 жыл бұрын

I've met both of them.Admittedly very briefly.James Bolam -as far as I could tell -is a reserved ,quiet man. Rodney Bewes- on the other hand - was an absolute prat - a typical "Luvvie". You could see how he could rub Bolam up the wrong way.

Bob and Terry were great characters… Rodney Bewes was a great loss and we will forever be grateful for the laughter he gave us all. For some reason….. James Bolam decided to cut all ties with the show and didn’t want to have anything to do with it. He wouldn’t agree for the shows to be repeated and Cost the rest of the cast…money…..( allegedly)…. It is BOLAM who kept this petty feud going and I for one…. will not forgive him for denying us the chance to see how the lads would look in their older years… Did not even send Rodney a small letter to acknowledge the death of his wife….. I wish BOLAM no harm….but I for one…will not shed a tear when it is HIS time to depart this great earth….. Rodney Bewes…god bless you sir……

@Bulletguy07

2 жыл бұрын

I've had a couple of "mates" do similar to me.. One I knew for 30 years the other, 40 years. The guy I was mates with for 40 years, we had some great times. I stuck by him through his divorce, then a seriously bad relationship he had with an alcoholic partner who eventually died.....then his second wife came along and she changed him. I worked hard to get on with her but they were like fly paper and if I got into any debate or disagreement on anything they stuck together like glue and I was then the object of their verbal attacks. He took early retirement (mid 50s) and enjoyed rubbing my face in the fact I still had to work. A few years later he had a stroke which left him partially disabled. When he was in hospital I used to leave home early to go and visit him before I went to work. When he was eventually discharged I still kept regular contact, by phone or visiting his house at least once a week. By now I also had retired. One night I slipped badly at home and broke my leg and it was during this time I began to reflect......where was my "friend"......why no phone call. Then it hit me. For years it had always been me going to his house, always been me making the phone calls, never the other way round. So once I got better I phoned less and limited my visits more. Then three years ago when I was away on holiday he died. His wife had neither texted me or phoned so after a few days of stewing on it I phoned her and immediately her manner was abrupt and hostile. She told me, "well we never heard anything from you, you never phoned". I wanted to say "doesn't your phone make outgoing calls" but couldn't bring myself to say what was in my mind. I wish I had told her now but it was very obvious she neither wanted to see or hear from me again......yet I had known her husband years longer than she ever had!

@harimadhavan1712

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bulletguy07 That's dreadful. Unfortunately there are a lot of selfish people around. To tell you the truth, he didn't seem like much of a friend. Though I don't know either of you, it "appears" that the friendship was one way.

@Bulletguy07

2 жыл бұрын

@@harimadhavan1712 For the most part we had a great friendship but his second wife changed him. She was quite an assertive person. But yes, for sure it was very much "one way" in that it was always me making the phone calls and me going to their house......never the other way round, but they had a way of making me feel the guilty party. I still feel bad that I hadn't phoned them before going on holiday the year he died.

@angiemetcalfe7210

Жыл бұрын

I think people forget that this was just RB's version (and not even close to being true)

@affectionatepunch

Жыл бұрын

Can't understand why people believe that nonsense it's up to the BBC if they want to repeat or re sell a tv show not an individual actor or their agent same as the fuss he made about his cat almost severing an artery because Olivia Harrison put up a razor wire fence

Remember the talking clock? This commentator fits the bill🥱🥱

That’s a voice that has been put together electronically. Mindless tittle tattle 😡

@TallSilentGuy

2 жыл бұрын

How can this be "tittle tattle" when most of it has been substantiated, you pair of idiots? 🙄

Its shocking how people can get so far apart after being so close . Its sad . I wish they had made up and buried the hatchet and become friends again .

@scottandrewbrass1931

2 жыл бұрын

They were only work colleagues.

@angiemetcalfe7210

Жыл бұрын

@@scottandrewbrass1931 exactly. RB makes out like they really were like Bob and Terry and they just weren't

@tanyaandelvis2698

Жыл бұрын

@@scottandrewbrass1931 James Bolam is well known for not staying in touch with ex co stars

Bewes always denied the rift. I think the issue with Bolam was best illustrated in an interview with Nigel Havers. He said that while doing a play with him Bolam advised him to never look back and always move forward; that revisiting past projects, work colleagues and seeing how old they have gotten will makes him feel old too.

@affectionatepunch

Жыл бұрын

Don't you mean Bolam always denied the rift? Anyhow James Bolam couldn't stop a repeat of anything Bewes was talking nonsense

Bolam denies the rift, but I believe he's lying to save face, he must feel bad about treating someone like this, I wont deny Bolam is a great actor but not the type of man I would want to know, he'll have been gloating over the fact that he was successful and Bewes was suffering, shameful.

@ruthbashford3176

2 жыл бұрын

I always thought James Bolam was overrated as an actor. In my opinion Rodney Bewes was the better actor.

@scottandrewbrass1931

2 жыл бұрын

@Ruth. He was a terrible actor. Total ham.

@lulubelle24

Жыл бұрын

James Bolam is nasty.

@wix7657

Жыл бұрын

Speaking as a geordie Bolam is not a great actor by any stretch of the imagination!

Did this robot narrative know how annoying they are.....?

Robotic voice. No thanks. Got to 25 seconds (roughly half of which, was over done channel self-ad) paused the video, left this comment... and left...

Can't understand why Bolam was so bitter over something so trivial. I could understand if Bewes had bedded Bolams wife or something but not a silly story. Bolam denies the rift .. who knows. I have seen most of Bolams work , LL , WEHTTLL , Biderbeck , Shipman and New Tricks. The Likely lads was BY FAR the best work he has done (IMO) . Bitterness is a consuming thing . You can see it written on his face . Shame they fell out . RIP Rod

@MarkHarrison733

9 ай бұрын

They were never friends.

Why are they using robotic voices all the time in these tributes .

Met Rodney Bewes once at a talk/signing. Came across as a genuinely genial gent. Can't speak for Bowlam, so won't pass any comments on him, though it is documented that he did block retransmissions of Likely Lads, which not only affected Bewes, but also other members of the cast and crew, and that does on the face of it look quite selfish.

@scottandrewbrass1931

2 жыл бұрын

Absolute rubbish. "Whatever Happened To?" has been repeated as much as your average sitcom. Obviously not as often as "Dads Army" or "Only Fools And Horses" but still a respectable amount of times and is STILL being shown. One actor (no matter who they are)can't dictate things like that.

@willdoyle29

Жыл бұрын

@@scottandrewbrass1931Incorrect, Bolan could and did, and this left Bewes with a mortgage and forced to do one-man shows into his seventies

In spite of what James Bolam said after the passing of Rodney Bewes, I can't help but feel there is more to this than Bolam is letting on.

@jrgboy

6 жыл бұрын

The rift is well documented, just Google it for the full story.

@alexdavies1662

6 жыл бұрын

+jrgboy - Oh I know all about it.

@jrgboy

6 жыл бұрын

OK then , I don't think there was any more to it than that

@alexdavies1662

6 жыл бұрын

+jrgboy - I reckon James Bolam wasn't being very forthcoming in his "tribute" to Rodney Bewes. No mention of the angry phone conversation in 1976, no mention of Bolam refusing to sanction any repeats of the sitcom and growing angry at the mere mention of "The Likely Lads."

@jrgboy

6 жыл бұрын

Why would he mention those things ? , they are all out their in the public domain bot relevant to Rodney's demise..

couldn't listen to it, crappy computer voice

what a spiteful man Bolam

I think Bolan is great actor but a bit of a prat

Good video but the robot voice spoils it

Vile robotic voice-sounds like listening to a cheap satnav device (a Todd Todd) you'd discover on ebay.

@jrgboy

6 жыл бұрын

The robotic voice calls James & Rodney a 'double act', they never were that at all. People started compare them to Ant & Dec, no way, Rodney was a Yorkshire man for a start & they were both straight actors

I’m no fan of bolam as a man, and I don’t really care about him, however bewes was lucky enough to have more than a moderate career, his fair share of the pick of the women in his youth and constantly in work and earning...which is more than many get, so he shouldn’t of compared himself to others and let the likely lads go, and enjoyed the remainder of his career/life. Anyway, rest easy, Rodney.

so sad.... lifes just too short for this....

Unfortunately people can let both their mouths run off before thinking and their egos get in the way.

Brigit Forsyth hasn't given a tribute to Rodney Beers. Yet she doesn't get as much stick.

@TokyoJoe703

4 жыл бұрын

That Nigel Greenwood’s tribute was shit coz he got Rodney’s surname wrong

@angelaandpaul4945

3 жыл бұрын

Yes Rodney liked a 🍺😂

James Bolam was a great talent, but on this issue he appears to have been deeply unreasonable.

They were never friends.

@scottandrewbrass1931

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely. A lot of these idiots on here are getting them confused with their television characters. Just wait til they find out they weren't Geordies either.

Gave up hero worship when l was a kid . Musicians , actors , actresses etc their private lives , affairs , drug and drink and sexual indulgences etc did,nt interest me just the ablilities and talents that made them famous . At the end of the day everyone is a flawed and imperfect human being so why do you need to hear or read about it ?

Very sad

Rodney was in Dr Who and he played a character whowa snot avillain

Love this guy one of the best what ever the rift it's there business I will always love him for his acting keep up the good work xxx

@richardoliver2930

3 жыл бұрын

A lovely man

So much speculation about a thing nobody knows anything about. From what I gather they were just different people. And the thing about it not being repeated is just not true. Is was repeated loads of times.

Sometimes you cannot forgive or forget

@paulnewton3059

Жыл бұрын

Like my friends who refuse to discuss the vaccine/poison.

@terryduckworth5105

Жыл бұрын

@@paulnewton3059 what poison ?

@paulnewton3059

Жыл бұрын

@@terryduckworth5105 The so called vaccine.

Always the same droning on. If Rodney Bewes just got on with working hard he would have the last laugh! James Bolam was a better actor and moved on. You can't do the same thing forever. In recent Radio interviews James Bolam never said anything bad about Bewes. Bewes just wallowed in self pity really.

Very sad about the rift but the likely Lads was classic Thelma and the others were also good.

Bolams best 2 parts are likely lads and only when i laugh. Both fantastic but probably too much like himself. Not been interested in much else he's done

@paulnewton3059

Жыл бұрын

What about 'When the Boat comes in?

Such a sad finish, to what is still the greatest show ever

Sorry but these computerized commentaries are just a turn off. I lose interest after a couple of minutes

Bolam has always been a one trick pony.

That bot speaks betterer than wot I do…lol….

Takes two to fall out and always two sides to the story

@richardoliver2930

3 жыл бұрын

They were funny together

@andyrob3259

2 жыл бұрын

@@richardoliver2930 they were acting a part from a script. Nothing more.

They were never friends to begin with. Merely actors playing the part of friends. People move on .Seems that Rodney couldn't and had to invent this feud to get attention for himself.

@mick6370

Жыл бұрын

Incorrect they were friends there's photographic evidence out together and they both use to visit one another's houses.

@ivanugliarse

11 ай бұрын

And how would YOU know?

@scottandrewbrass1931

9 ай бұрын

@@mick6370 Photographic evidence 😅

@scottandrewbrass1931

9 ай бұрын

@@ivanugliarse Because I chatted to both Dick Clement and Ian La Frenias at length on the subject at the 30th Anniversary Auf Wiedershen Pet event ten years ago at the Gateshead Hilton for an interview that unfortunately didn't get published. Bewes and Bolam were two entirely different actors that worked excellently on the show but rubbed each other the wrong way in reality. Bolam was very private whilst Bewes was a total theatrical luvvy type. There is an excellent article by Graham McCann online which pretty much more or less covered what my piece said. Check it out . Bewes was lying.

he thought the likely lads was beneath him, yet he went on to make, only when i laugh. that was crap compared to TLL.

I loved that show what a great shame they fell out your air long time dead

@scottandrewbrass1931

2 жыл бұрын

They never really "Fell In" to "Fall Out" in the first place.

AI delivery is appallinh

Crap synthetic narration ruined what could have been a genuinely interesting video for a big Likely Lads fan like me. Turned off after 1.05. Lose 10 points

James Bolam, has, with Rodney Bewes, were the. personification of 1960s television comedy. But as a man, whom I have respected for many years. I have only just realised the visceral hatred Bolam carried for his for his Partner, who was instrumental in binging his success. As a man.The Guy is a twenty two carat gold Shithouse. Has he NEVER made a mistake, the vile bastard will die a miserable death. The whole thing makes me so fuckin sad, that the guy couldn’t measure up as a REAL man

This video has given me an insight into the tv star that I didn’t know. Ok james bolam, you’ve won. Happy now? I doubt it.

Bewes struggled to move on after the likely lads finished. His declining career was unfortunate but Bolam didnt owe him anything. Bewes never let the rift go at every given opportunity he droned on about it. The Likely lads was constantly repeated again Bewes moaned about the lack of repeats. Bolam moved on and progressed, hes a private individual his privacy was breached. He didn't owe Bewes a life time friendship. Sad but its life. The Likely Lads was a classic for both actors, it ended. One moved on the other struggled. Tomorrow is over

Shame

Another robotic narrator.

I AM A ROBOT

This is a load of crap.

Robot voice 👎🏻

awful. The Likely Lad ?

Although I think Bolam was overrated as an actor I bet he made a great Harold Shipman

I rate this video the worst on youtube :(

It's is what's is it,only they know what went on.let's move on.

Yuk! Computer narrator.

This must be Bolam propaganda

Crap programmes, can't stand them either