Whenever I get caught up in this woke crazy mixed-up world I always ask myself.... 'What would Keith Floyd have said?' .... then I tell myself... Well... I jolly well can't say that...
I remember my grandfather going to London to film this, he is the army captain who ran Floyds restaurant and comes out near the end. He loved Floyd and Floyd loved him.
A really charming person, who lived life to the full, anyone that doubts him, this is what arguably the greatest British chef of all time said at the time of his death; "The thing which is very sad is a little piece of Britain today died which will never be replaced. He was a beautiful man, his ability to inspire people to cook just with his words and the way he did things was extraordinary. If you look at TV chefs today they don't have his magic. It's a very, very, very sad day for my industry and secondly for a nation." So if he's good enough for Marco Pierre-White, then he's good enough for me, I thoroughly enjoyed his programmes, and still do today, the world certainly is a sadder place without him.
I started to think of Keith just a few weeks ago and I'm so glad to have found this wonderful piece of history! I watched all of his programmes back in the 90's when it aired on tv in Sweden. I surely miss him!
***** I agree totally. A lesson indeed to live life, and although Keith's own life had many worries, many setbacks, some regrets, he showed us how to break from the norm, to be an individual, to love and present food, the stuff of life. Blessings to you Keith.
A remarkable man and a very talented cook whilst being a pioneering broadcaster.; certainly a highlight of my televisual life. I watched the last film of him, wrecked, obviously in the process of dying, in the home his wife was about to eject him from per the divorce he was experiencing, with his daughter asking yet again for him to not drink further. Then, in celebration at NOT having terminal colon cancer, he had a last blowout..…...and died of a massive heart attack! Perhaps he left as he lived; fearless, dangerous to all who knew him, but brave in a way not seen now, in this bloodless gutless time of the absurd infants in adult bodies. He came form that world of an England now long gone - big personalities, brave in their excoriating honest truthful bigotry, and frankly the echo memory of a global Titanic civilization. Now not even an ember remains. Cold as stone. Dead and full of the flaccid who do not even know who or what they were and are. Floyd's films are historical documents now. Of real value. To be really treasured. A window on a dying world a little like 15th Century, dying Byzantium. Wondrous, rich, and unable to sustain itself. Makes me weep to see what has come since then.
..wow! that was a seriously impressive tribute to Keith Floyd and a razor sharp observation of our current global situation in time (as human beings). I'm guessing that you're a professional writer? Thanks for your post, Mr. Field
@@MrsFish7 I write on climate change political and economic matters.Thanks for the kind observation. Keith was unusually worthwhile.Glad I was around when he was. All the best.
He was a nice guy, but you are woefully, tediously misguided and deluded in your broader, half-baked sociopolitical commentary. Grow up. Oh and Free Palestine.
@@jamescarr4662 Your pitiful criticism amounts to nothing more than ' I do not agree with you'. So big deal. Well, Carr old sausage, NOBODY cares if you agree with me or not!!! And Palestine is something I know FAR more about than you do, You abusive virtue-signalling lightweight. I - we Do not need another leftie self - hating bore. GO AWAY!!!
Keith Floyd was an absolute legend, ask any TV cook or chef...To CT...He never said he was a chef, he always said he was a cook. I met Keith at one of his tours in 2005, he was only too happy to chat have pics and sign a few books...to CT you are wrong in your comments, although he did drink too much, strangely it wasn't the drink that killed him, it was smoking that gave him a heart attack, but it was the way he chose to live...Keith Floyd inspired millions of people that's what makes him a LEGEND
He was the best! Didn't patronise you on TV like some chefs. Mixed cooking with culture and entertainment and a glass or two of red. Such a shame he's gone.
I worked at The Red Lion Inn 1993-1994 and the Ferry Boat Inn 1994-1995 in Dittisham, which is a couple of villages along the Dart from Tuckenhay where his pub was. When I was at the Red Lion I heard so many stories from the locals moaning about him. The favourite seemed to be him charging for Heinz Beans on Toast (£5.99 or something - a bargain now!). People forget that 'Floyds Inn.. Sometimes' (the Maltsters Arms) was really the beginning of the gastro pub, and people now think nothing of paying waaaay over the odds for simple food. The woman I dated most of my time in South Devon went down to the pub once with a load of friends and local woman dressed as vikings to complain his comments about him!!!! I went down there in my first few weeks and introduced myself - Shaunagh's mother worked behind the bar (and a fine woman she was) and introduced me to Keith. He really was a pioneer, in everything he did, but goodness as with most true renegades, his life was a (self confessed) mess. I never missed his show - the Stranglers music, the bon vivant, the raffishness, and the food that always turned out seemingly wonderful. A fascinating man who i doubt ever asked for any pity.
just love it, basically he spent his life in bars making friends and on outrageous projects that had good intentions but those nasty accountants always brought him back with a bump
I got the feeling from Keith that this show seemed like a bunch of Facebook creepers suddenly turn up from the past and you want to block them but you can't because it's all on live television. The guys from Provence were the only 2 he didn't feel odd about lol.
Thanks so much for posting - the Master Mr Keith Floyd who thanks in no small part to the featured late David Pritchard, pioneered the alternative to the truly dreadful ‘TV Chefs’ of yester-year ( Fanny Craddock, Gallop Gourmet etc etc) .... and continued brilliantly by the likes of Rick Stein ( also David Pritchard), Jamie Oliver et al
There are about fifteen people on the bench on the right of the screen so it looks like they cut some of the guests out. It may just have been because Rick Stein wasn't as famous then, so they preferred to use Bill Wyman, Hugh Cornwell, and Albert Roux.
Do you have to comment on every video of his? A great deal of "much loved" TV people are most probably arseholes in real life and away from the cameras. Whilst it's indeed sad that he didn't treat his apparent loved ones as he should have, can you not just let people enjoy what he did?
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At 60 myself now, I will always credit this guy for two things
1. It being ok for a bloke to cook
2. It being ok to live too
Love the man
Same age, same sentiment
The greatest! I watch all of Keiths TV shows on repeat every week.
Whenever I get caught up in this woke crazy mixed-up world I always ask myself.... 'What would Keith Floyd have said?' .... then I tell myself... Well... I jolly well can't say that...
(If there is a..) God bless for his honesty...
I remember my grandfather going to London to film this, he is the army captain who ran Floyds restaurant and comes out near the end. He loved Floyd and Floyd loved him.
A really charming person, who lived life to the full, anyone that doubts him, this is what arguably the greatest British chef of all time said at the time of his death;
"The thing which is very sad is a little piece of Britain today died which will never be replaced. He was a beautiful man, his ability to inspire people to cook just with his words and the way he did things was extraordinary. If you look at TV chefs today they don't have his magic. It's a very, very, very sad day for my industry and secondly for a nation."
So if he's good enough for Marco Pierre-White, then he's good enough for me, I thoroughly enjoyed his programmes, and still do today, the world certainly is a sadder place without him.
Michael Martin here here. I agree
I started to think of Keith just a few weeks ago and I'm so glad to have found this wonderful piece of history! I watched all of his programmes back in the 90's when it aired on tv in Sweden. I surely miss him!
Michael Martin your comment says it all...
The old bugger choking up about 2 minutes in. A great Englishman and more of the likes are surely needed
The Oliver Reed of the cookery world! Genius!!!
James Henderson really? max clifford is about as genuine as jimmy saville. That’s rubbish shame on you
Britain 🇬🇧👍was Great back then
Thx Keith 🥂 Cheers
yes great character like this is sorely missed now...-whos the modern equivalent? . .. - Big Zuu ?. .-its a disgrace all round . .. !
Legend and lovely guy Rip Keith Floyd x
I can't believe I have never seen this. TV has honestly never been the same since he left us and was in his prime. Love the bloke.
A magnificent character,so much enthusiasm and joy.Love him.
We went to his pub in Devon a couple of times and he was there propping up the bar. Fabulous character, not enough of his sort about.
***** I agree totally. A lesson indeed to live life, and although Keith's own life had many worries, many setbacks, some regrets, he showed us how to break from the norm, to be an individual, to love and present food, the stuff of life. Blessings to you Keith.
Why did in Eamon Andrews mention Floyds FIRST WIFE who was JESMOND RUTLEDGE ? This second wife didn't waste much time , did she ! !
Thanks for sharing. 👍🏻 Greatest TV chef of all time...😔
A remarkable man and a very talented cook whilst being a pioneering broadcaster.; certainly a highlight of my televisual life. I watched the last film of him, wrecked, obviously in the process of dying, in the home his wife was about to eject him from per the divorce he was experiencing, with his daughter asking yet again for him to not drink further. Then, in celebration at NOT having terminal colon cancer, he had a last blowout..…...and died of a massive heart attack! Perhaps he left as he lived; fearless, dangerous to all who knew him, but brave in a way not seen now, in this bloodless gutless time of the absurd infants in adult bodies. He came form that world of an England now long gone - big personalities, brave in their excoriating honest truthful bigotry, and frankly the echo memory of a global Titanic civilization. Now not even an ember remains. Cold as stone. Dead and full of the flaccid who do not even know who or what they were and are.
Floyd's films are historical documents now. Of real value. To be really treasured. A window on a dying world a little like 15th Century, dying Byzantium. Wondrous, rich, and unable to sustain itself. Makes me weep to see what has come since then.
..wow! that was a seriously impressive tribute to Keith Floyd and a razor sharp observation of our current global situation in time (as human beings). I'm guessing that you're a professional writer? Thanks for your post, Mr. Field
@@MrsFish7 I write on climate change political and economic matters.Thanks for the kind observation. Keith was unusually worthwhile.Glad I was around when he was. All the best.
He was a nice guy, but you are woefully, tediously misguided and deluded in your broader, half-baked sociopolitical commentary. Grow up. Oh and Free Palestine.
@@jamescarr4662 Your pitiful criticism amounts to nothing more than ' I do not agree with you'. So big deal. Well, Carr old sausage, NOBODY cares if you agree with me or not!!! And Palestine is something I know FAR more about than you do, You abusive virtue-signalling lightweight. I - we Do not need another leftie self - hating bore. GO AWAY!!!
@@jamescarr4662 With every gallon?
Keith Floyd was an absolute legend, ask any TV cook or chef...To CT...He never said he was a chef, he always said he was a cook. I met Keith at one of his tours in 2005, he was only too happy to chat have pics and sign a few books...to CT you are wrong in your comments, although he did drink too much, strangely it wasn't the drink that killed him, it was smoking that gave him a heart attack, but it was the way he chose to live...Keith Floyd inspired millions of people that's what makes him a LEGEND
He was the best! Didn't patronise you on TV like some chefs. Mixed cooking with culture and entertainment and a glass or two of red. Such a shame he's gone.
Loved the World over because he lived the life most people wished they had the courage to live...
The best TV chef ever
the truth is NOBODY has ever done it as good as Floyd, he makes it look easy but so many have tried and look at the result... mainly crap
a true legend
I worked at The Red Lion Inn 1993-1994 and the Ferry Boat Inn 1994-1995 in Dittisham, which is a couple of villages along the Dart from Tuckenhay where his pub was. When I was at the Red Lion I heard so many stories from the locals moaning about him. The favourite seemed to be him charging for Heinz Beans on Toast (£5.99 or something - a bargain now!). People forget that 'Floyds Inn.. Sometimes' (the Maltsters Arms) was really the beginning of the gastro pub, and people now think nothing of paying waaaay over the odds for simple food.
The woman I dated most of my time in South Devon went down to the pub once with a load of friends and local woman dressed as vikings to complain his comments about him!!!!
I went down there in my first few weeks and introduced myself - Shaunagh's mother worked behind the bar (and a fine woman she was) and introduced me to Keith. He really was a pioneer, in everything he did, but goodness as with most true renegades, his life was a (self confessed) mess. I never missed his show - the Stranglers music, the bon vivant, the raffishness, and the food that always turned out seemingly wonderful.
A fascinating man who i doubt ever asked for any pity.
keith the legend floyd... strangler man:)
thanks very much for uploading this! a personal hero of mine too.
is very hard to come across rare/early stuff of keith.
Absolute legend. Loved this guy.
Don't know who he is until today. A great tribute. Thx.
just love it, basically he spent his life in bars making friends and on outrageous projects that had good intentions but those nasty accountants always brought him back with a bump
So money is the only arbiter. Accountants never seem to go bust What do they do for anyone? .
thank you for posting!!!! love it
Was in Lagos Nigeria when l heard of his death on the 14th September 2009.
Every time l feel low l think of this wonderful man.
I got the feeling from Keith that this show seemed like a bunch of Facebook creepers suddenly turn up from the past and you want to block them but you can't because it's all on live television. The guys from Provence were the only 2 he didn't feel odd about lol.
Priceless comment, lol.
Stein and James copied his travels through France and Spain but didn't quite make the grade. Floyd a legend..
My Late mum and Dad went to one of keith Floyd restaurant in Bristol in the early 70s
Brilliant!
Authenticity! Imperfect and haunted, but noone more authentic. Floyd put a love into me for cooking and anarchy. God bless his soul! From USA
What a guy 💚 I miss you man
Great Personality 👍❤️🌻🥰👵🎭🎉
Thanks so much for posting - the Master Mr Keith Floyd who thanks in no small part to the featured late David Pritchard, pioneered the alternative to the truly dreadful ‘TV Chefs’ of yester-year ( Fanny Craddock, Gallop Gourmet etc etc) .... and continued brilliantly by the likes of Rick Stein ( also David Pritchard), Jamie Oliver et al
What a great ending, great fun watching this.
That fiancé had his pants right down financially
I agree and she was also sleeping with my sister's partner.
Was Rick Stein not a guest? I’m reading Rick’s autobiography and he describes Keith being very un-pleased to see him. Maybe they cut it?
There are about fifteen people on the bench on the right of the screen so it looks like they cut some of the guests out. It may just have been because Rick Stein wasn't as famous then, so they preferred to use Bill Wyman, Hugh Cornwell, and Albert Roux.
Legend xx
He broke the mould
Have you got anymore from This is your life please?
Floyd seemed stereotypically drunk, even in this show. Shaunagh was the third of five wives. What a life.
She only married him for a bit of fame. She had an an affair with my sister's partner!
Fiancée: it was love at first sight… of his wallet
Was she looking in the mirror at the time? Some nerve.
Keith Floyd this is your eighth wife, i mean this is your eighteenth pint 🍻 😉 i mean drunken life, but he was the best 😊 👍
Legend
Damn, he would've only been in his mid 70s now. Some ppl should get a free pass when it comes to dying and Keith is of them.
Do you have to comment on every video of his?
A great deal of "much loved" TV people are most probably arseholes in real life and away from the cameras.
Whilst it's indeed sad that he didn't treat his apparent loved ones as he should have, can you not just let people enjoy what he did?
@@Bansidhe be nice this is this guy's only hobby lol
Is this the whole programme?
19:32 Hugh wipes the coke from his nostrils
Who is The presenter?