I had a crush on David Essex': Australia's first female Prime Minister reveals she had the 1970s star on her bedroom wallAs a pop star in the 1970s David Essex graced the walls of many a teenage girl's bedroom.
But now it seems that the singer and film star was the schoolgirl crush for none other than Australia's first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.
The Welsh-born premier said the Silver Dream Machine star had been the subject of her affections when she was growing up in Barry before she moved with her parents to Adelaide in the 1960s.
Crush: Singer and now EastEnder David Essex was a poster favourite of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard when she was growing up
Talking to Tasmanian radio station Edge FM in Hobart, she admitted when asked about who she had on her bedroom wall as a girl: 'It’s so long ago that this is going to be embarrassing, but it was probably someone like David Essex.
'It was the days when Skyhooks and bands like that were ruling the Australian scene, so all of the Australian scene, but [I had] a bit of a crush on David Essex.'
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