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North Essex: Roy relishes role as wedding belle

8:00am Friday 4th July 2008

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Some women wear the trousers in their relationships - but Linda Hempstead will be wearing them on her wedding day, too.

The 61-year-old of Fern Way, Jaywick, is holding a mock wedding with her friend, Roy Evans, in aid of charity, where she will don a suit and he will be dressed to the nines in a big white frock.

Linda, who volunteers with Roy at the over-60s club at Golf Green Hall in Jaywick, came up with the idea of the wedding when she jokingly proposed to him on February 29.

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Norm, Colchester says...
9:25am Fri 4 Jul 08

Ha ha ha! Ooooooooh, that's just so funny. It's like the woman will be dressed as a man and the man will be dressed as a woman instead of the other way round. Brilliant! Just brilliant!

I'm sure I read about this story in this month's 'Over 60s Cross Dressing Wedding Digest'.

Maybe she's a bunny boiler and came up with this cunning wheeze to snare Roy?

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No! I'm Spartacus, Colchester says...
9:27am Fri 4 Jul 08

You know, on this occasion, I'm agreeing with 'Norm'. Lazy journalism, with not even a mention of the charity this ... err... 'event' is in aid of....

Basics.... who, where, WHAT, WHY & WHEN.

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Roy, Jaywick says...
9:27am Fri 4 Jul 08

HELP ME PLEASE! I am being held against my will in Fern Way Jaywick and forced into a sham wedding with a crazy woman called Linda who makes me dress up as a woman. PLEASE HELP ME!

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Bob, Colchester says...
9:29am Fri 4 Jul 08

I thought Roy Evans was married to Pat Evans and lived in Albert Square, Walford. Wow, maybe he faked his death to get away from Pat and start a new life dressed as a woman with Linda in Jaywick.

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No! I'm Spartacus, Colchester says...
9:36am Fri 4 Jul 08

This is all entering a surreal Dali-esque world of intrigue.

Cross-dressing, Eastenders characters become real, contrived marriage & death faking.... Don't tell me that Den Watts is the vicar...

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seasider, besidetheseaside, besidethesea says...
10:13am Fri 4 Jul 08

and then theres jaywick, not cross dressed, but crossed of IN-Tends regeneration list.
(look on its TDC website)

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Ted Bovis off of Hi-De-Hi, Colchester says...
10:28am Fri 4 Jul 08

Me and Spike did a similar thing, except we both dressed up as Brides. Then Peggy dressed up as a man, and pushed us in the swimming pool.

Later that day, Ken Shabby won the knobbly knees contest, and Colin McTavish won the hairiest dog competition with his dog Quasimodo.

Hi-De-Hi campers.

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Paul, Colchester says...
3:03pm Fri 4 Jul 08

Police pulling over cars all over town today, yet the best the gazette can come up with is a story about some cross dressing weirdos in Jaywick! IF you are the person at the gazette taking a wage for posting this rubbish perhap you'd be so good as to put your name to it!

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