Carol Klein once discussed art in the bath with John Lennon (Image: Channel 5)
Gardeners’ World star once shared a bath with John Lennon – completely unaware who the singer was.
Carol was a budding artist in at the time when had been performing at the Oasis club. Despite not having the money to actually attend one of the big nightclubs in the city, Carol says she and her friends were invited to an afterparty.
On arrival, Carol says she noticed a number of other girls “seemed excited” because “some lads from a group” were also in attendance. Writing in her Hortobiography book, Carol reveals she had “heard” of The Beatles, but didn’t really know who they were.
It was then, completely unaware, that she struck up a conversation with singer John Lennon.
The 79-year-old explained: “I’d heard of the Beatles, but didn’t know much about them. They’d been playing at the Oasis club just down the road from Amigos, I think – I would have never had enough money to go to a club.
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Carol Klein says she attended parties in Manchester as a youngster (Image: Submitted)
“I got talking to one of them but the place was so crowded and the music was so loud, that we retired to the bathroom and sat in the bath to have a conversation. We talked about all sorts of things, but mainly art.
“He was several years my senior but our chat was very much as equals. He had to go back to Liverpool, I had to go home. I didn’t realise until later that year, when their first 45, Love Me Do and Ps I Love You was released that I’d shared a bath, albeit fully clothed, with someone so famous, John Lennon.”
Carol’s fame soared after she joined Garden Party in 1996. Although it wasn’t until nine years later she joined Gardeners’ World on a permanent basis.
She has since become a popular fixture on the hit show. Away from Gardeners’ World, she has filmed a host of horticultural shows, including a series from her Glebe Cottage home in North Devon.
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Carol reminisced about a moment she shared in a bath with John Lennon. (Image: Getty)
She has been married to husband Neil Klein for over 45 years, occasionally sharing sweet moments of the pair’s lives on her page. The couple are parents to two daughters, Annie and Alice.
The Beatles meanwhile became the biggest selling British musicians of all time, with an estimated 600 million album sales worldwide. They split up in 1970s.
Lennon was tragically murdered in New York in 1980. He was shot in the archway of the Dakota in by Mark David Chapman on December 8. Chapman was jailed for life.