BBC Gardeners’ World presenter Carol Klein has made a shocking revelation about an intimate encounter she once shared with Beatles singer John Lennon
Carol Klein
Gardeners’ World presenter Carol Klein once unwittingly shared a bath with John Lennon, completely oblivious to his fame. At the time, Carol was an aspiring artist in Manchester when The Beatles had just performed at the Oasis club.
Despite not having the funds to attend one of the city’s major nightclubs, Carol and her friends found themselves at an afterparty where she noticed other girls were excited about “some lads from a group” being there. In her book ‘Hortobiography’, Carol writes that although she had “heard” of The Beatles, she wasn’t familiar with them.
It was in this state of ignorance that she ended up chatting with John Lennon. Now 79, Carol recalls: “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.”
“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.”
Carol Klein says she attended parties in Manchester as a youngster(Image: (Image: Submitted))
“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.”, reports the Express.
Carol’s popularity skyrocketed when she joined Channel 4’s Garden Party in 1996, but it wasn’t until 2005 that she became a permanent fixture on Gardeners’ World. Since then, she has become a beloved figure on the hit BBC show.
Carol reminisced about a moment she shared in a bath with John Lennon.(Image: (Image: Getty))
In addition to her work on Gardeners’ World, Carol has filmed numerous gardening shows, including a series from her Glebe Cottage home in North Devon. She has been married to Neil Klein for over 45 years and they share two daughters, Annie and Alice.
Occasionally, Carol shares glimpses of their life together on Instagram. Meanwhile, The Beatles have become the best-selling British musicians of all time, with an estimated 600 million album sales worldwide.
However, their journey ended in the 1970s. Lennon was tragically killed in New York in 1980, shot in the archway of the Dakota by Mark David Chapman on December 8.
Chapman was sentenced to life imprisonment.