The guests for this event were originally Sarah Shahi, Laurel Holloman, Rachel Shelley and Anne Ramsay. Sarah Shahi and Laurel Holloman had to withdraw from the event in the weeks before and were replace by Lauren Lee Smith and Guinevere Turner

The event at Heathrow is a lot smaller than the Blackpool event held in November, which was good as the guests seemed more relaxed and mingled for quite a while with the fans at the parties in the evenings.

Rachel Shelley as the home star was the main draw for most people, judging form the attendance at the Q&A. Rachel came across as funny and down to earth and seemed to have a great time dancing with the guests on the last night.

Anne Ramsay said at the opening ceremony that the audience could ask her “anything” they did and all credit to her she gave answers. Anne was funny and spoke a lot about her career, both Louise and I thought she was awesome in Mad about you

Lauren Lee Smith was kind and sweet. Lauren spent ages in the foyer on Saturday night talking to fans and made Louise’s weekend at the Q&A on Sunday “Aww” Clair, Lauren’s “Super Fan” was great as she not only had a list of questions of her own that she asked when others were not waiting she asked several for people who were too nervous to do it themselves. I did ask Lauren a question and I could feel an attack of stage fright coming on but I held it together.

Guinevere Turner was suffering from jet lag on the first full day of the event but on the second day did a good Q&A with Rachel Shelly on Sunday.

“Waves” to all those we spoke to and hung around with over the weekend, hope you are caught up with your sleep and the hangovers were not too bad.

I now have two signed programmes from the two events and I have decided that I will auction them for charity on ebay at some point in the future. I think three signed programmes might be a bigger draw and we are thinking about going to the L5 event in November but are not sure yet. The only guest announced so far is Jennifer Beals.

On our wish list for other guests would be Mia Kirshner which seems unlikely and Pam Grier

For those of you who don’t know “The L Word is a television drama series on Showtime that portrays the lives, loves and learnings of a group of lesbian and bisexual women and their friends, family and lovers in Los Angeles.” Wiki

I was a bit apprehensive as I did kind of have the worry that I would be the only bloke their but I wasn’t and
everything was great. Spoke to a few people, hello to the Wigan posse if you are reading this, you will know who you are

The guest were :

Eric Mabius who is now in Ugly Betty. He made several references about how refreshing it was to get out of the “Hollywood Bubble” for a bit and that it was great to meet the fans.

In the first Q & A Laurel Holloman mainly seemed to get asked questions about Jennifer Beals who plays her character’s off and on partner Bett in the show. I think this is mainly down to the the fact that Jennifer Beals has not attended a convention yet but it was a bit of a shame that Laurel wasn’t asked more about herself and her character.

Leisha Hailey rocked the place on Friday night with her new band UH HU HER although the sound system in the hall was not the best it sounded great even if I couldn’t make out the words. We did get the cd that was on sale so I hope to hear it better soon.

Erin Daniels simply put was a hoot. Her natural one liners were amazing and her mimicry was great, Louise and I were impressed by her attempt at a Glasgow accent. I asked her at the signing if she enjoyed playing a “nasty” part in Dexter and she said “yes it was great fun”. I do think she would be great in a comedy and I hope she finds a project soon.

Kate Moenning at least one person we spoke too thought that Kate was “stand-offish” but I think she is just a shy and a bit nervous person. Some of the fans I think do have to remember that she is not actually Shane the character she plays in the show. A couple of people at her first Q & A said “Shane” when they should have said “Kate”.

The weather in Blackpool was terrible very high winds and really heavy rain. On Friday night the wind destroyed a carrier bag that we had with two kebabs and two cans of Coke in it. Only one kebab survived and seemingly my sad little face looking at the destroyed kebab on the ground was very funny.