To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video Vanessa Feltz made an emotional appeal on behalf of her late friends on This Morning when discussing the blue plaque rules. Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary asked who she felt deserved a blue plaque as one at George Harrison ’s childhood home was unveiled today. The 62-year-old presenter said the restrictions should be changed that prevent Paul O’Grady and Steve Wright being honoured for quite some time.
The National Blue Plaque Scheme, run by English Heritage, allows councils to mark buildings where notable historical figures lived, died, or worked. Rules state that the recipient of the honour must have died at least 20 years before the application is made. Vanessa did not agree with this, stating we should be allowed to memorialise public figures immediately if public sentiment is strong enough.
‘I love it, I absolutely love it but there is another rule they have that you can’t be commemorated with a blue plaque if you haven’t been dead for 20 years,’ she began. ‘I would just really love them to change that. I think if people are very badly missed immediately, it would be lovely if you could put up a blue plaque pretty much straight away.
’ Blue plaques are placed in visible locations to indicate a building or area linked to a famous person or event. The former Strictly star said she believed this exception should be made for her ‘beautiful, wonde.
