When fan club founder Anne Sylvester was asked if she could help a TV chat show to provide a fitting welcome for her favourite star she leapt at the opportunity like a bat out of hell.
The 44-year-old York hypnotherapist, who owns some 2,500 pieces of Meat Loaf memorabilia, was ideally placed to help Graham Norton welcome the American singer and actor. She set up the UK Meat Loaf fan club more than six years ago and has since established a small museum dedicated to the larger-than-life musician at the removals business of her partner, Dave 'Dee' Hughes.
Anne, from Haxby, said she had already met Meat Loaf "countless" times before the filming at London Weekend Television's studios at Embankment, London.
She said: "It was a fun show. I know from experience that Meat Loaf is such an impromptu artist and showman that once he starts he just goes with it."
Dave, 53, who runs the Banana Warehouse, in Piccadilly, York said: "Graham Norton was brilliant but we hardly got a word in edgeways when Meat Loaf came on because he took over the show."
Among the couple's collection of Meat Loaf memorabilia are hundreds of signed records and compact discs, clothes and merchandise.
TV bosses could not say today when the show would be aired.
Updated: 10:56 Thursday, May 15, 2003
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