Questionable Performance  

Cliff Richard With A Young Girl

In a performance of the song 'Christmas Alphabet', made for a video release and broadcast by the BBC in 1991, other adults, as well as a boy and a young girl feature, along with the singer/performer Cliff Richard. 

The viewer, who is not just an uncritical fan being entertained by the proceedings might question, as I do, the way that the young girl (seemingly uncredited) is used in the production made for 'Christmas Alphabet'.

The girl appears seated - at first - and shows no sign in her facial expression or body language of being a trained entertainer or performer/actor of any sort.

Cliff Richard goes up behind the young girl and waves what I presume to be mistletoe over her head.

Note the following -

There is a basic, large power imbalance between an adult man and a young girl. At this point, Cliff Richard has increased the imbalance of the relationship between the two of them by standing behind her - both through his positioning and by standing while she is seated, he makes the young girl unable to see what he is doing in relation to her, unless by her looking awkwardly backwards and up at him.

Would a man who respected this young girl and wanted her to feel comfortable, have positioned himself in relation to her in the way that he does?

Instinctively, it looks very wrong (to me) and simple analysis of their positions, which Cliff Richard is responsible for, explains (to me, at least) why it looks so wrong.

As he waves the mistletoe over the young girl, she doesn't appear to have much, if any idea of what is going on, or why.

Why did Cliff Richard choose to feature this young girl in his commercial production?

Can anyone watching the scenes with them fail to perceive, from the comparative facial expressions and body language of the guileless-looking girl and the rich, narcissistic, arrogant pop star/performer, that she was being grotesquely manipulated and exploited by him?