Who was your first Crush?
I couldn’t have been more than 10 years old.
We would gather to watch. Episode after episode.
We got them from the local video rental shop.
I think we may have had a schedule because Uncle Peter, Uncle Yashi and Aunty Angie were always present on the days we watched.
Maybe it was Tuesday and Thursday evenings… And weekends too. I think that’s what I remember.
It was so long ago…
Everyone had a favourite. For Mummy and Aunty Angie it was Alexis.
Daddy loved Blake. Sometimes I think he wished he was Blake.
We watched every single episode… Dynasty 1981… 9 seasons.
I watched and waited… Just to see Jeff. Always.
To me, he was the ideal man. I was going to find myself a man exactly like him when I grew up…
It didn’t matter that he wasn’t real.
As I grew up and became a teenager, he was replaced… Of course… By real humans.
…but when the question comes up, the answer is always Jeff Colby.
Jeff Colby is a character played by John James (now 67 years old) in Dynasty and The Colbys.
