Elvis fanatic’s big day

Elvis-mad Wolverhampton housewife Pam Palmer will be all shook up commemorating the 30th anniversary of The King’s death tomorrow.

She has carefully planned every minute of the big occasion so she can watch five of his films and listen to all his greatest hits. So obsessed is the 29-year-old that two of her children, Chad and Maele Elvisa, are named after characters in Elvis’s movie Blue Hawaii. Luckily, Pam’s lorry driver husband Terry is understanding about the other man in his wife’s life.

“I loved the sound of Elvis’s voice from the moment I first heard it and everything developed from there,” she said. “When I was eight I decided that I liked him so much that I told my parents I wanted to start an Elvis collection. I haven’t stopped since.”

The mother-of-four from Warstones, Penn, has been hooked on Elvis since the age of four, she says, despite being born four months after his death.

So devoted is Pam that she regularly watches at least three Elvis films or concert DVDs a day, while also finding the time to spend hours listening to her vast collection of Elvis songs.

She also has a wide variety of clothing featuring the singer, together with two life-sized cut-outs of him and dozens of posters. 

Her semi- detached home is a shrine to The King and is crammed with hundreds of pieces of memorabilia. 

There are 20 framed photos of him in her bedroom alone – and none of husband Terry, 40.

Pam said: “People think I’m crazy but I don’t care. He is an icon with amazing sex appeal. I am his greatest fan but also appreciate how fortunate I am to have a marvellously understanding husband.”

Terry added: “I don’t like Elvis but knew I had to share him with her when we married. She fell for him a long time before me.

“I don’t moan about her obsession with Elvis and she keeps quiet about my love of Wolves.”

The couple have been together for nine-and-a-half years and have four children – Abigail, 13, Maele, 12, Thomas, 11, and Chad, seven.