He was at London Film and Comic Con 2 weeks ago signing autographs and doing photo shoots just like every other celeb there, you never would have guessed he was so close to leaving us from that event.
I met Kenny years ago when he was in pantomime at Edinburgh, yeah Edinburgh with Allan Stewart. My friend was a great pal of Allan's and would go to his dressing room and I thought I would chance my arm and asked if I could meet Kenny. He answered the door and was getting dressed at the time so said I could wait. What a lovely, down to earth, pleasant, lovely man and I spent about 20 minutes talking to him about mainly Time Bandits as I love that film. He gave me a signed autograph with him as R2-D2 and something I have cherished since. Glad he survived until he was 81, against all odds.
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RIP to R2 D2, Fidgit and a whole lot more..
RIP Kenny Baker, was nice to meet you fleetingly.