Tyne Tees Television coverage of the 1998 Northern Variety Club Awards from the Mayfair Ballroom in Newcastle hosted by Tyne Tees Television journalist and presenter Pam Royle. Title: The Northern Variety Club Awards To the applause of the various regional celebrities and personalities in the audience the host of The Northern Variety Club Awards 1998 Pam Royle comes out onto stage. After explaining that these awards are to honour ‘those people who are not only successful in their particular...

Tyne Tees Television coverage of the 1998 Northern Variety Club Awards from the Mayfair Ballroom in Newcastle hosted by Tyne Tees Television journalist and presenter Pam Royle. Title: The Northern Variety Club Awards To the applause of the various regional celebrities and personalities in the audience the host of The Northern Variety Club Awards 1998 Pam Royle comes out onto stage. After explaining that these awards are to honour ‘those people who are not only successful in their particular field, but who have made a great contribution of raising the profile of the North East’ a montage follows of what has been spent by the Variety Club in the region as part of their Gold Heart appear. Disabled children using new Variety Club Sunshine Coaches purchased following a £75,000 donation, children visiting the annual Hopping’s Fair and a baby in an incubator feature. The first award of the evening is Male Personality of the Year which is presented by sports commentator and actor Glenn McCroroy. Over the four nominations beginning with Hexham born actor Robson Green, Benwell born actor Tim Healy, Hartlepool born actor Philip Middlemass and Geordie duo Ant & Dec [Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly] a montage of clips of their various television appearances. The award is won by Robson Green who wasn’t able to attend and so a filmed acknowledgement by him is shown. To the cheers of the audience Northeast television personality Mike Neville comes up onto stage to receive the award on behalf of Robson. Pam introduces the second award of the evening for Female Personality of the Year and invites onto the stage to present it Tyne Tees Television Managing Director Margaret Fay. After talking about being a role-model for other women in the industry another montage of clips featuring each of the four nominees beginning with the Labour MP for Redcar Mo Molam, Tynemouth born actress Denise Welsh, Sunderland born writer and broadcaster Denise Robertson and Newcastle born Commonwealth Games champion swimmer Susan Rolph. The award is won by Mo Molam, who isn’t at the ceremony to receive it so her award is accepted by a close cabinet colleague the MP for Newcastle East and Minister for Agriculture Nick Brown. Title: End of Part One Part Two Welcoming viewers back after the commercial break Pam introduces the Team Awards and invites onto the stage Gateshead born track and field athlete Steve Cram to present it. As details are provided on each of the teams successes a montage of clips featuring the nominees beginning with Middlesbrough Football Club returning to the Premier League under the management of Bryan Robson, Tow Law Football Club winning the Western League and playing at Wembley, Newcastle Falcon’s rugby club becoming the best rugby team in the country and Radio Tyneside who have been in operation for fifty-years. Announcing Newcastle Falcon’s as the winner its Director of Rugby Rob Andrew comes onto the stage to accept the award. Introducing the final award of the evening, the Northern Variety Clubs Special Award, Pam invites onto the stage footballing legend, Jack Charlton. Explaining that tonight’s winners are a husband-and-wife team who are both proud of their North East roots Jack announces the winners as Tim Healy and Denise Welsh. As they come out on stage a montage of clips featuring both of them in a variety of television roles. Following the acceptance of the award both Denise and Tim speak about the honour of winning this award. Brining both the programme and awards to a close, Pam thanks on behalf of the Variety Club to all the hard-working celebrities, volunteers’ contributors who have made the evening a success. Over the closing credits John Miles and the Brendon Healy Band perform John’s hit ‘Highfly.’ Credit: Presented by Pam Royle Titles Jon King Camera Davd Dickson Sound John Cook Lighting John Moore OB Supervisor Jim Lillie VT Editor Edmund Quigley Production Assistant Margaret Bramley Executive Producer Jane Bolesworth Producer / Director Elizabeth Mary Bage End credit: A Tyne Tees Television production. © Tyne Tees Television MCMXCVIII