Booney wrote:Had the pleasure of sponsoring Ritchie as guest speaker at a golf day in WA and having dinner next to him, hell of a nice bloke when he wasn't "on".
He's married to Rachel Hetherington, former pro golfer, they live in a gated community in Florida on a private golf course that has only 1000 members and there is no way of buying in for a round, it is 100% members / residents only.
He smashed down a bottle of Bundy on the rocks in about 90 minutes while getting ready for his show, we set him up in our committee room, his manager (who's name escapes me atm) told me to just keep feeding him Bundy if I want a better show.
Over a short period of time we managed to get Peter Bosustow, Warwick Capper, Chopper Read, Mark Jackson and Greg to do shows at our club, we could hold 320 people and they sold out within a fortnight, in order I would've rated most entertaining to least:
Ritchie
Capper
Bosustow
Mahatma Cote
Jacko
Read
Jacko and Chopper were disappointing, I expected them to head the list. Wazza is a deadset banana, he is exactly what you see and hear, very interactive and didn't mind signing anything, having a beer and a chat with the patrons and says whatever is on his mind.