“We discovered that apparently, he’s an After Nine fan. [George] works out with Lizzie [Webb] regularly and apparently he even watched the feature on make-up for the older face. Though judging by the interview, which you’re going to see very shortly, he doesn’t need any tips because he’s looking extremely good indeed.” - TV-AM After Nine, October 20, 1987
"[Harrison] appeared to promote his 1987 single Got My Mind Set On You. It reached number two in the UK charts and Harrison later phoned Mrs Webb to thank her for giving it a boost. He also sent her a Christmas card featuring a photograph of the pair. Mrs Webb said: 'I was touched that a star of his magnitude would take the time for such a lovely gesture. I’ve got a lot of gold discs from record labels thanking me for my help as I had such a big audience that people wanted to listen to "whatever music Lizzie’s using this week."'" - Henley Standard, July 28, 2019
The fitness theme may or may not be connected to getting in shape for touring:
“[Ahead of the Japan Tour] I got myself kinda fit — I mean, not *too* fit, but more fit than I would’ve been if I’d just been hanging out not doing anything.” - George Harrison, Goldmine, November 27, 1992 (x)
“With my music at TV-AM, one day I had a record from a solo artist by the name of George Harrison. And he was the Beatle I always fancied. So I thought, I’ve got to use it no matter what it’s like, played it, and it was great, up tempo: ‘I’ve Got My Mind Set On You.’ So I did it, and lo and hold, it got in the charts. One day I went home and there was this voice on my recording machine. ‘Hello, this is George Harrison. I want to thank you for making my record a hit.’ I thought, this is Rory Bremner, this can’t be George Harrison! Do you know, he’d found out my phone number and phone me to thank me? Then one day at TM-AM, I got this amazing Christmas card, and it’s from George. ‘Dear Lizzie,’ and he apologized for being out of the country, ‘my next record is going to When We Were Fab.’ He said, ‘You’ll have to make it “When We Were Flab.” He invited me to his house and we sat in his kitchen. And I’ll never forget it, in the kitchen was this little black and white picture of him as a little boy sitting on the doorstep of his house that he was brought up in. And he said, ‘I never forget.’” - Lizzie Webb, My Time Capsule Podcast interview, 2023
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