OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Only Fools and Horses’ star Nick Stringer kept his wig from the show and used it to date girls.
The British actor famously played Del Boy’s old school friend and business partner Jumbo Mills in the 1986 episode ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’, trying to convince Derek Trotter to emigrate to Australia with him and run his car business with him.
In a famous scene Del whips off Jumbo’s wig to win a bet with Boycie to prove he’s wearing a hairpiece, and later when Jumbo declares to Uncle Albert that he’s not bald, the old sailor proclaims “well it’s a helluva a parting you’ve got there son”.
Nick – who played a different character in Series 1 episode ‘Go West Young Man’ – has now revealed that he kept the bespoke wig after filming on his episode had wrapped and he would wear it to impress the ladies.
In an interview with fans, he revealed: “I did keep the wig. They sent me to a proper wig maker, I think it cost about 500 or 600 quid, it was a proper kosher thing. It was presented to me on a wig block, one of those dummy heads. At the end of the shoot I said to the make-up lady, ‘How much would you like for that?’ And she said, ‘It’s not going to fit anyone else Nick, it would only clutter up the storage.’ So out it came. I kept it for quite a long while, impressed quite a few girls with it I have to say.
“It was only really when my hair turned a rather elegant silver that it became useless. It would look rather daft if I put it on now. I rather liked it, that’s because it was so personalised.
“I don’t know where it is now. My daughter is a make-up artist for TV and film, I think she might have it somewhere.”
Nick – who has starred in a host of classic TV shows including ‘The Bill’, ‘Open All Hours’, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet’, ‘Coronation Street’, ‘Minder’ and ‘The Professionals’ – also kept the script from the popular episode and sold it just a few years ago for a handy pay day.
He said: “The only script I kept was the Jumbo Mills one and I sold it a couple of years ago.
“I didn’t keep ‘Go West Young Man’, because it was just a job, nobody knew where it was going.”
Nick would have loved Jumbo to have become a regular alongside Sir David Jason as Del Boy and Nicholas Lyndhurst as his younger brother Rodney Trotter, but he is grateful to have starred in one of the most memorable storylines.
He said: “Of course I would have loved it, it would have been such fun and a lovely job to do, but you don’t go into a sitcom where you’re not one of the regular characters with that hope. Nine times out of ten it won’t happen, so I was happy just to get the job and do it.”

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