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Oscar-winner Kate Winslet namechecks local paper

A good luck fax sent to actress Kate Winslet saw the Reading Evening Post receive a global namecheck in the early hours of this morning.

The Berkshire star picked up the Best Actress Oscar in the Los Angeles for her performance of a Nazi officer in The Reader.

And in a post-ceremony press conference she told the world’s media that the Evening Post had its latest Winslet photo.

Kate, 33, was referring to a story and picture the Guardian Media Group title had carried of her mother Sally who last week won an onion pickling contest at a Reading pub.

The paper sent a good luck fax, below, complete with a copy of its pickled onion photo to the Bel Air Hotel where Kate was staying with her parents which staff dutifully handed on to the actress.

The Hollywood star said: “I feel like an unlikely hero. I was not the privileged kid things like this could happen to.

“My mum won a pickled onion competition in the local pub and the Reading Evening Post sent me a picture of her holding her jar. Well, Reading Evening Post, here’s your next Winslet picture!”

Deputy editor Hilary Scott said: “I was one of the judges at the pickled onion contest – they were lovely, very sweet – and that’s when I had a chat with Sally and Roger and she told me how excited they were and that they were staying at the Bel Air Hotel.”

Hilary said they were very grateful to the Bel Air Hotel staff for handing over the fax and believed they were the first local paper to get a namecheck at the Oscars.

Comments

The Badger (25/02/2009 16:00:00)
LOL! That’s terrific! I can’t believe Sally won the contest! I am very pleased and sure her onions are among the finest in the land. Any word on her daughter, Kathleen?