I’m trying to think of a more surreal experience than interviewing the Kemp brothers by Zoom – maybe seeing them together in real life? “I spent a month crying with laughter. Because I didn’t want to screw it up for them. The Spandau Ballet stars star in a mockumentary that will make Bros blush. Martin and I, people only saw our characters in Spandau Ballet, they never saw a photo of us at home.” (They both have an absolute aversion to being photographed or filmed at home. Martin, meanwhile, is a film director, bringing together some of Britain’s finest actors – Daniel Mays, Christopher Eccleston, Alan Ford – for his gangster movie, “The Hardest British Bastards of the Galaxy”. This is intentionally funny, I hope.”. But it was the intensely loving environment more than the rags-before-riches that left Gary, in particular, with an oppressive sense of responsibility. Wind farms to power EVERY home in Britain in ten years: Boris Johnson will tell party conference he wants to... Johnson & Johnson will pay more than $100MILLION to settle more than 1,000 lawsuits that claim its baby... Now strip Post Office chief of her CBE: Former boss Paula Vennells should lose the honour over postmasters... What FIRST set the royal brothers at war: Years before Meghan, Prince William brought Prince Harry into his... 'The boy's got a temper! “When we went to see Ronnie [Kray] in Broadmoor, he said [tiny, high voice]: ‘You’re not going to play me with that earring in, are you?’” says Gary. A lot of the jokes came from Gary and Martin, a lot of the ideas came from them. Gary only asked Martin to be in Spandau Ballet because his younger brother (Gary is 60; Martin is 58) was the most handsome person he knew, and it remains the case that Martin looks the more polished and defined, like a CGI’d Gary. What’s written for you and what’s happening start to blend. I realised if we put the joke on Gary, not the band, and made him look obsessed with Tony Hadley, then it would be funny. Comparisons between the Kemps (Gary, now 60; Martin, 58) and Matt and Luke Goss are inevitable, following the nerve-shredding, hilarious cringe of last year’s Bros: After the Screaming Stops. One of the documentary’s running jokes is Martin being married to both Shirlie Holliman and her former bandmate Helen ‘Pepsi’ DeMacque – which saw scenes get more intense than they may have liked. I think he realised you don’t have to be serious all the time, you can just go out there and have some proper fun.”. We wanted to be someone on a grander stage and take an opportunity to live in a fantasy for a while.”, “In Spandau Ballet, I was always playing a part,” agrees Martin. Martin John Kemp (born 10 October 1961) is an English actor, musician and director, known as the bassist in the new wave band Spandau Ballet and for his role as Steve Owen in EastEnders. Why not be the first to send us your thoughts, 'My parents, like my children, are everything to me.'. Martin and Gary Kemp are in mourning after their parents died within 48 hours of each other. or debate this issue live on our message boards. But the former seamstress and school dinner lady  was distraught at the loss of her husband of 55 years and died soon after. “The Bros documentary wasn’t intentionally funny, you’re laughing at them. Martin chimes in: “Literally, there were tears running down our faces. Rhys Thomas interviews the Gary and Martin Kemp about their lives and careers following Spandau Ballet’s 40th anniversary celebrations. While this is different, this is meant to be funny. But that’s not the whole story. The Kemps retired to the seaside later in life and had lived in a three bed detached house in Canford Heath, Poole, for the last 21 years. “She experienced this really weird thing - if you do drama you can feel quite heavy in the evening, if you do comedy you can come home and feel really light-hearted. The Kemps: All True is a BBC Studios production for BBC Four. While they may have this small circle – just the brothers, their wives (Gary is married to the costume designer Lauren Barber, and has three young sons, having previously been married to Sadie Frost, with whom he had a son in 1990; Martin has been married to Wham!’s Shirlie Holliman since 1988, and they have two children) and, until his death, George Michael – they’ve never peeled off from the world. Prince Louis plays in the sand while 'cheeky' Prince George and Princess Charlotte help... Meghan Markle's 'eye blocks' and 'throat tightening' are signs her ego was left 'raging' when she was told... SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Prince Charles hails dry stone walls as works of art. Martin Kemp and Gary Kemp have had long and successful careers both together and apart, after finding fame as part of Spandau Ballet in 1979. Give me a date,” Martin said. He has such a deep fascination with the brothers that it is often hard to figure out who the butt of the joke is: Martin, Gary, Thomas, the viewer or (my hunch) the true fool – the person who doesn’t realise how amazing the Kemps are and always have been. As well as looking back at their musical history, The Kemps: All True sees the Kemps other passions: Martin attempts to launch a new film franchise and Gary plans a new Vegan meat-substitute, Wonge. I always think comedy should be inclusive.”. There were towels on the window at four in the afternoon.” All the way through the film, these details have been amplified and made vaudeville, but they probably would have had more impact if they had stuck with the truth. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? Martin made a cameo as himself on the show – and it is where the idea for The Kemps: All True sprang from. That’s what you do. Rhys Thomas will direct and produce and the BBC Commissioning Editor is Alex Moody.

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