DAVID Essex endures ... Yes, those eyes. Essex's sapphire orbs ensnared the hearts of a generation in the 1970s. At his peak his gypsy image appeared to capture the fantasies of all womankind.

IT seemed a natural fit when five years ago David Essex agreed to join the cast of ... see the son of an East End docker father and Irish gypsy mother, in a role he was seemingly born for in ...

Seventies heart-throb David Essex ... My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. The one-off film was watched by 2.2 million viewers earlier this month. ‘It was absolutely ridiculous,’ said Essex, 66 ...

David Essex, whose career is now 40 years ... the year in the life of a young man who wishes to trace his Gypsy roots - for which Essex has also provided a Celtic-influenced soundtrack.

He was a young, tall, handsome gypsy; girls threw knickers at him and the boys hated him for it. Though still a heart-throb for a generation of women who grew up with his posters on their bedroom ...

DAVID Essex is in Dorset shooting a film about gypsy travellers. The Seventies heart-throb was on set at a Horton farm yesterday filming scenes for Tribe, which sees his son Billy Cook take the ...

He may no longer be the cheeky chappy with the tousled hair, gypsy earring and boyish grin, but grey hair and a stouter build have done nothing to deter David Essex’s army of besotted female fans.