{"id":150501,"date":"2025-02-14T11:01:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/anita-dobson-had-no-idea-sir-brian-may-was-famous-when-they-met\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T11:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:01:56","slug":"anita-dobson-had-no-idea-sir-brian-may-was-famous-when-they-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/anita-dobson-had-no-idea-sir-brian-may-was-famous-when-they-met\/","title":{"rendered":"Anita Dobson had no idea Sir Brian May was famous when they met"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Sir Brian May<\/a>‘s wife Anita Dobson had no idea he was a famous rock star when they first met.<\/p>\n

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Anita Dobson and her husband Sir Brian May<\/p>\n

The actress – best known for her role in British soap opera ‘EastEnders – was first introduced to the Queen guitarist at a film screening back in 1986 when Brian was still with his first wife Christine Mullen and Anita admits she didn’t realise who the musician was.<\/p>\n

During an appearance on Lacey Turner\u2019s ‘We Started Here’ podcast, Anita explained: “I went to a \u00adpreview of the film ‘Down And Out In Beverly Hills’ with my then-agent and a kind of boyfriend – I\u2019m not sure if we were on or off at the time.<\/p>\n

“Brian turned up and that was the first time we met. He was married at the time – I didn\u2019t know that – but he was with his wife.<\/p>\n

“She said: \u2018I think you\u2019re marvellous in ‘EastEnders” and then he said: \u2018I think you\u2019re marvellous too. You should come along and see us at Wembley.\u2019<\/p>\n

\n“I turned round and went: \u2018Who the hell is that?\u2019 And a person behind me said: \u2018Don\u2019t you know who that is? It\u2019s only the lead guitarist with Queen’.”<\/p>\n

\nAnita went on to become good friends with Queen’s lead singer, the late Freddie Mercury, and eventually got to know Brian but they didn’t strike up a romance until the late 1980s following his divorce from Christine and they married in 2000.<\/p>\n

\nThe actress added: “As a result of that [first] meeting [with Brian] I came to be friends with Fred, and I didn\u2019t really get together with Brian until much later – until all the stuff of life had happened with his \u00admarriage and whatever.<\/p>\n

\n“It was Fred I used to hang out with a lot, and Brian kind of introduced me to Fred and Fred kind of gave me back to him, if you like.”<\/p>\n

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