The girl who was all 'eyelashes and legs'I was rightly admonished by a reader for not mentioning model Twiggy in last week's column concerning the "Swinging Sixties" in London. Born Leslie Hornby, being so thin she was nicknamed "Twigs" at school and among friends long before she became well-known. "At 16, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs," she said in an interview. Through the regular references in Private Eye, Neasden developed such a reputation that just the mention of the place by any comedian would probably get a laugh. After one court decision went against him he came out with the wonderful "if that's justice, then I'm a banana".

Source: Bangkok Post July 24, 2021 21:56 UTC