The theatre producer and chairman of Everton Football Club Bill Kenwright spent the weekend in the South of France “because there’s no Everton football” and will be celebrating there today with his family and friends and new granddaughter. “I’m looking at her picture on my desk right now. I didn’t think I was capable of such love.” He has three shows currently in the West End including Blood Brothers, which has been running since 1983. “It’ll never close,” he says firmly. He will direct his first movie in the autumn, a western set in Wyoming called Incident at Twenty-Mile by Trevanian. “It’s my fantasy come true. I always wanted to be Alan Ladd in Shane — I queued all night for an auction and have one of his outfits in a glass case in my study.” A perpetual enthusiast for new things, he claims: “I haven’t even started yet. One day the headmaster is going to say ‘Get back to school, Kenwright, and do some real work!’ My dream for next year is that David Moyes, who has worked so hard managing Everton, gets some silverware.” Bill Kenwright is 61 today.
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