With all the media hype lately surrounding the new Livi ‘striker’ joining the cast of BBC Scotland’s weegie soap, River City, the Daily Tabloid today EXCLUSIVELY reveals that the fictional ‘Andrew Murray’ is not the only Lion starring in front of the camera.
For unbeknown to most viewers on this side of the world, several ex-Livi players have swapped their amber shirts for denim dungarees, and are now fictional inmates in the highly successful low-budget Australian soap Prisoner: Cell Block H. Set in the unrealistic Wentworth Detention Centre, the show revolves around the lives of several big butch lesbians, and their daily existence within the shaky plywood walls and bars of the fictitious women’s jail.
The show has been running for many years now, but has already made household names of ex-Lions Jason Young, Lee Bailey and Willie Callaghan. However, the Tabloid now understands that former skipper Stuart Lovell’s part-time contract with Queen of the South has enabled him to return to his homeland every week to film his new character Vera “Vinegar Tits” Bennett, a hard-nosed prison warden.
We spoke to Lovell last night in
Former Livi golden boy and poser Jason Young managed to grab a quick word with us during a break in filming of a gang rape scene. “It’s great to have someone of Stuart’s calibre in the show” he panted breathlessly. “It’s only a shame this is meant to be a women’s prison as it means we can’t play football during our recreation period. The producers think that would be unrealistic. Mind you, I was never much good at it anyway.”
Eager Livi fans can tune in to STV every night a 3:30am to watch their former favourites ‘do porridge’.