They took photos and cried out and carried on. Unfortunately, the queue we were in was so slow moving that after while the fans stopped crying out and the television faces stopped waving back. It was like being in a crowded airport waiting to be checked in. Queue rage was not far off. The fans got bored with seeing home-grown celebrity up close.
Familiarity breeds contempt and some fans started giving a bit of career advice.
My favorite catcall from the ranks of the public was directed to a prominent woman television celebrity who shall remain nameless. This became a stampede once it was revealed that the hold-up had been caused by Richard Wilkins interviewing people. I ran past our Richard and past people stopping and posing on stairs. A woman, who is usually described as a bubbly television presenter, was contorting her body in the shape of a store dummy from the window of the old Coles store in the city. I wondered how long she had practised that pose.