I have not yet located the cassette tape (but it's not lost) of the informal "interview" that I recorded on 13 July 2004 at Heathrow Airport in the caféteria with Silvia, but I have just found all the magazines that I asked Silvia to kindly autograph. As mentioned before, the caféteria tables were fairly close to each other so I had to be careful when opening out the magazines to find a suitable page where Silvia could sign with the black pen I had, without attracting attention!
As it was, when I was taking photos of Silvia, one of the caféteria staff, an Indian gentleman, asked to be in a picture with Silvia without knowing exactly who she was, I suspect. After Silvia went through the Departure Lounge, I showed the staff some of the magazines! They, in turn, wanted to show them to the Manager!
If any of you would like to see the "signings" (with some extra words in one or two cases), I can scan the double page of the relevant magazines where signed and also the front cover to show which magazine it is and post them up on the Forum.
After Silvia went through the Departure Lounge, I showed the staff some of the magazines! They, in turn, wanted to show them to the Manager!
For what purpose? Were they shocked for being seduced by such a devil and wanted to stop Silvia's flight for making her a "prisoner of hell"? Or did they think "Hell is where the party is" and wanted to make their manager jealous?
If any of you would like to see the "signings" (with some extra words in some cases), I can scan the double page of the relevant magazines where signed and also the front cover to show which magazine it is and post them up on the Forum.
Note Silvia's usual misspelling of the word "with"!
Well, if me had been to Heathrow that day instead of you I would have been hardly able to write my own name. Probably your presence confused her spelling likewise.
Thank you for the scans. And like Lindoro I hope that the lost cassette tape will show up some day.
As you may know, Silvia was at London Airport (Heathrow) on her way back to Prague after completing a photoshoot for the "Arena" magazine in London earlier that same day.
Not long after, the "Arena" magazine came out. It was a very bulky magazine including a supplement and I sent 3 full sets of copies to Silvia by airmail.
I don't know if the article and photos were ever fully published on the Web? If not, I can try to scan them in. I think I will have to use an A3 scanner - I will check.
If it's not on the Web, please let me know and I will locate the magazine. Maybe, the cassette is with the magazine? I haven't looked at it for almost 11 years!
NB. The article was not very accurate - Bernd knows!
The only picture with "Arena" I found on my hard drive is the one below from an Arena Calendar (May 2005 page). So I assume that magazine has not been scanned before and would be very welcome here.
I have located the original "Arena" Magazine Pack dated October 2004. It is a bulky pack (I bought 5 complete sets sending 3 sets to Prague and I kept 2 sets). The outer pack cover is as above, then inside that, there are 2 magazines (main magazine with another model and the supplement). The supplement magazine "Adult Education 2004" contains the article about Silvia including a double-page photograph, as below (the article incorrectly suggests that this is virtually the last ever photoshoot of Silvia we will ever see not to mention all the nonsense about my airport visit, which was in fact arranged by Martin!)
I have found the cassette of the short interview recorded on 13 July 2004 at London Airport (Heathrow) Terminal 2. It was in the same bag that contained the "Arena" packs undisturbed from 11 years ago.
I haven't checked it to see if it still plays OK but I will and if so, I will type out the transcript for the Forum as soon as I can.
You will remember that Silvia's friend and "Dream Team" member, Monica Sweetheart, very kindly answered in writing a whole lot of questions that we sent her (published elsewhere in the Forum). We prepared a list of questions for Silvia as well some years ago. Unfortunately, Silvia didn't send us the answers but we do have the Airport personal contact on behalf of fans everywhere (including Silvia kindly speaking with Alexander who had telephoned my phone number from Russia - Silvia surprised him doubly by addressing him in his own language!).
As to the "Arena" people suggesting that their London photoshoot in July 2004 would be one of the last ever photoshoots to be taken of Silvia, Silvia has done hundreds of photoshoots since then, I imagine, for her new Website, etc. But, is Silvia still doing photoshoots to this day? I am a bit out of touch with all the newer Websites.
As to the "Arena" people suggesting that their London photoshoot in July 2004 would be one of the last ever photoshoots to be taken of Silvia, Silvia has done hundreds of photoshoots since then, I imagine, for her new Website, etc.
They could not distinguish between Slovakia and the Czech Republic (where Kyjov is actually located, and already was in 2004). And on their cover they mistook Gisele Bündchen for the "greatest body in the world". So I doubt if their story about this unknown British obsessive is really true. On the other hand, who in this forum wouldn't be obsessed by her? Better being obsessed by St. Silvia than by the devil.