“When Richard Gere came on the show, I introduced him and at the end I said, and ‘he’s done this, he’s done that,’ and I used the phrase ‘sex symbol,'” Aspel said. “After the interview, we had a phone call from his agent saying if I didn’t remove the sex symbol thing, they were going to take it up with their lawyer.”
He continued, “He would not be known as a sex symbol. It was very odd. But he took himself very seriously because he did a lot of stuff for the people of Tibet.” After “American Gigolo,” Gere starred in such films as “An Officer and a Gentleman,” “Beyond the Limit” and “The Cotton Club” in the 1980s. In 1990, he starred alongside Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman.”
The actor has also been a prominent advocate for human rights in Tibet since the early ’80s, and co-founded the Tibet House in 1987. Aspel’s eponymous talk show, which ran from 1984 to 1993 on ITV, featured other celebrity guests including Barbra Streisand, Debbie Harry, Jack Nicholson, Paul McCartney and Bing Crosby. Aspel shared behind-the-scene details to the Daily Mail about several guests, including his interactions with Elizabeth Taylor, “the only person I ever sent a fan letter to,” the talk show host admitted.
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