Queen’s Brian Might collects ‘Star Wars’ toys and “loves Yoda”

Anita Dobson has revealed that her husband and Queen guitarist Brian Might is a collector of Star Wars memorabilia.

The actor, who has been married to the guitarist for over 24 years now, made the revelation in a brand new interview and shared that Might has a group of figures and ships impressed by the enduring George Lucas franchise.

Dobson – who famously performed Angie Watts in Eastenders – stated that her accomplice steadily buys two of the identical gadgets associated to the sci-fi sequence, one for himself and one for his grandchildren.

“Brian is a collector of Star Wars toys. And astronomical stuff, Queen stuff. He’s a giant collector,” she stated on the launch of Cirque du Soleil present Corteo at London’s Royal Albert Corridor (by way of Music News). “He buys a packaged one and one which he can have for the grandkids.”

“He’s purchased rather a lot. It’s eased off a bit, as he’s gone by means of life. His favorite is the little inexperienced man, he loves Yoda,” she continued, including that he additionally “loves” to gather issues regarding “prehistoric creatures”.

“I all the time suppose I’ve obtained to have a filter out, and quite a lot of my garments go to the native hospice. However there’s a lot stuff. The best way I take a look at it, my husband is a hoarder and I’m a semi-hoarder,” she quipped.

“I attempt to reduce the buildup of stuff that is available in. My husband is absolutely intelligent so any little issues that are available that you just suppose are ineffective he'll go, ‘No, no, don’t eliminate that as a result of it would are available helpful.’ And it does,” she added. “One thing he's fixing, or one thing he has determined so as to add, and there it's, he’s obtained it in his DIY field.”

Dobson stated that he has a group of Queen memorabilia too, together with previous costumes he wore on stage and at photoshoots, data, one-off releases and extra.

Brian Might’s passions prolong past that too, as latest years have seen him unfold consciousness across the badger culls within the UK and problem the notion that the animals are linked to the unfold of bovine tuberculosis (bTB).

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Final 12 months, as an example, he labored with the BBC to create a documentary known as Brian Might: The Badgers, The Farmers And Me, which adopted him on a four-year venture to eradicate the illness – which may devastate cattle populations – with out harming the badgers.

On high of that, he has a large data of astrophysics, having studied it at Imperial School London and getting a PhD within the discipline again in 2007.

He has tied the worlds of music and astrophysics collectively, creating a pageant known as Starmus that has a give attention to music and science.