| This is the MOST accurate recollection of the time we ran into Brooke Satchwell, Kimberly Cooper and Bert Newton’s Son. The "Erskinville Kings" are at a gig at the “Convention and Exhibition Centre”, Darling Harbour. DAVID: I need to go pee. Tom, mind my stuff. DAVID goes to the toilet. ARCHIE: Let’s think of more ways to ruin Pringle's life. Or at least make it hell. TOM: Yeah, let’s think of more ways to break Alex Love’s face. ARCHIE: No, I meant Alex Pringle. TOM sees Brooke Satchwell. TOM: Hey, Pat! It’s Brooke Satchwell! Let’s go stalk, (quickly correcting himself) I mean, let’s go talk to her! PAT: No, I don’t think she’s good looking. TOM: Dammit…(thinks to himself: "…hmmm…who’ll go with me…”) TOM runs into the toilet yelling “David” out. DAVID looks around, when he hears a high pitched scream. TOM realises he’s in the women’s toilet, and sneaks a double take before he runs out. TOM then enters the Men’s toilet and continues to yell out “David”. DAVID: (hears TOM and thinks to himself) What the Jack? That’s Tom voice. DAVID stays silent. TOM still can’t find him, so starts to look under all the cubicle doors. DAVID hears abusive language and profanities being yelled. DAVID goes to wash his hands and TOM finds him. TOM: Hey, Brooke Satchwell just walked past! DAVID: WHAT?? SHANNON BROWN!! TOM: No, Brooke Satchwell, from Neighbours. Wanna go follow her? She’s with her boyfriend. DAVID: Yeah! DAVID and TOM run out of the toilet. They start to run in the direction of the way Brooke. People’s faces start to turn into panic, thinking that there’s an earthquake, but then in the realisation of the “SIGHT” (TOM), they calm down. TOM: (panting) There she is! DAVID: WHO?? TOM: (takes a breath) BROOKE…(takes another breath) SATCHWELL!! DAVID: WHERE?? TOM: There!! DAVID: WHERE? TOM: Right in front of you, buying...(breath)...the ticket! DAVID: WHERE? (in sudden realisation) OMG!! It’s BROOKE SATCHWELL!! DAVID: Let’s say hello. TOM: You say it. DAVID: Tom, just yell out “BROOKE!” TOM: Let’s stalk them for a while. DAVID: What? TOM: No, I’m serious, if we stalk them for a while, they’ll think…(I can’t remember what Tom’s perverted reasoning was). DAVID: Just yell out “BROOKE!” Come on, Tom. (TOM is reluctant) Come on, Thomas! (DAVID slaps TOM on the back for encouragement.) DAVID: There’s “Gypsy” from “Home and Away”. TOM: Yeah! It’s KIMBERLY COOPER! And it’s Bert Newton’s Son! DAVID: Hey! He was on “The Panel!” TOM and DAVID sneak up behind them… They suddenly realise our presence and try to avoid eye contact, but no one can avoid looking at TOM. DAVID and TOM: Hello. FOUR OF THEM: Hi. TOM: You’re Brooke Satchwell. DAVID: And you’re Kimberly Cooper. TOM: (looking at Bert Newton’s son) And you’re Mother’s Frank! And you were in the Castle, and Two Hands, and... BROOKE: hehe, he just called you’re mother Frank. (This issue was not cleared up until later. I thought that his Dad was Bert?! But it turns out he was in a movie called “Mother Frank”.) (Introductions are made) (hehe, we shook their hands) BROOKE: So what are you guys doing here? Have you been at the Home Show? TOM: Yeah, we also had a gig here. BROOKE: Oh cool! What do you guys play? TOM: Violin. DAVID: Violin. TOM: We played at the Arias. BERT NEWTON’S SON: Oh cool TOM: Yeah, on the red carpet. BROOKE: So, anything good at the show? TOM: Yeah, (dodgily reaches inside his blazer, and pulls out a bottle of balsamic vinegar, and a photo of the quartet.) We got this bottle of salad dressing, and some red wine! But don’t tell anyone! And David broke some ten thousand-dollar home theatre system. RANDOM “HOME AND AWAY” SET PERSON: Drink that and…bla bla (he said something random.) DAVID: And I got some fortune cookies! (DAVID pulls out from his pocket a handful of fortune cookies wrapped in plastic, and offers it to them.) ALL FOUR OF THEM: No, thanks. TOM: Will you sign my photo? (We then got three of their autographs, except for the random set guy from home and away.) BROOKE: So we better get going. (And as Pringle would say, “I’ve got students to teach.”) TOM: OK, well, watch out for us at the Arias. ALL OF THEM: We will. KIMBERLY COOPER: Yeah, and watch out for me at the after-party. TOM: AWW!! Can you get us in?? KIMBERLY: No. [I’ll be having trouble getting myself in.] TOM reminists about how he got Belinda Wollaston's phone number. TOM: (To BROOKE) Can I have your phone number? BROOKE: No. TOM and DAVID meet back up with PAT and maybe ARCHIE was there. TOM and DAVID are smiling, and PATRICK looks unimpressed. DAVID: We met Brooke Satchwell! TOM: And Kimberly Cooper! TOM and DAVID: (together) And Bert Newton’s son!! AND to "Bert Newton's son" yes, we do know your name, it's Matt. And considering his Dad is Bert Newton, his name must be Matt Newton. |
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