BBC Repair Shop star Geoff Harvey got TV break while | UK News
The Repair Shop‘s pinball and arcade machine professional Geoff Harvey has opened up about his uncommon path into tv. Speaking solely to Express.co.uk the pinball and arcade machine professional who has appeared on many exhibits together with the beloved BBC programme, admitted the primary time he was “discovered” was when he was driving a hearse. Recalling the second he mentioned: “We had a thing called the Pinball Machine Company, where I used to deliver pinball machines in a 1950s hearse which was great fun. I loved that car so much…because where the coffin would go, you just slid a pinball machine in.
“I did have a few people who thought I used to be doing a kind of psychedelic funeral, or one thing, with these brightly colored cupboards within the back. One day I used to be driving by means of Golders Green about two within the morning and this car was following me. And wherever I went, it adopted,” he recalled.
“I pulled in to let it go and jumped out. They requested: ‘Why are you doing a funeral at three within the morning. Is it hippie funeral?’
“I said: ‘No it’s a pinball machine,’ and I told them what I was doing. Then they said: ‘We’re from Channel 4. We’re doing a documentary on eccentrics. Can we please. have your number please?’
“So it was fairly good, driving round with the machine within the back of the hearse. It was at all times a dialog piece,” he laughed.
Away from his TV work Geoff is kept very busy. Alongside running his own business supplyng and repairing pinball machines the former social worker also volunteers with an organisation called The Listening Place, which works with suicidal people seeing them face to face, rather than chatting over the phone.
He is also curating Pinball Alley at the upcoming Classic Car Boot Sale in Kings Cross London on April 26 and 27. He already does a similar concept for the Galstonbury festival and had been hoping to bring it to this event for some time.
The two day gathering celebrates all things vintage including music, food, fashion, design and classic cars, bikes and commercial vehicles.
It’s his first time at the event and he admits he is really looking forward to it having hoped to participate for quite some time.
“This is definitely my first time on the car boot sale however I’ve heard about it for years, and I’ve seen footage of it, and people mentioned, ‘Geoff, you need to go to the car boot sale. It’s completely wonderful’.”
The Classic Car Boot Sale takes place at Kings Cross London on April 26 and 27.
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