Normality - whatever that is...
Published Date:
06 June 2008
So after all my travelling it was back down to earth this week, doing normal things. Well as normal as I can get...
On the radio we had Ruthie Henshall, who whenever you mention her name people go "Who?". Then after she appeared on Paul O'Grady two days later everyone said "Oh her! I know who you mean". She has been in probably every West End show in the last 15 years or so - Les Miserables, Chicago, Miss Saigon and of course if you saw Paul's interview with her, has enjoyed living in New York and starring on Broadway too, until the kids came along.
She said it was so difficult bringing the kids up there so she's glad to be back in the West End in Margurite, although I wouldn't imagine she'll be taking the kids to see it, as she plays a bit of a scarlet woman in the show, sleeping with German Officers and piano players half her age in 1940's occupied Paris.
I've heard the music from it and seen some of the excerpts from the show – It looks great so if you are heading for London The Theatre Royal, Haymarket is the place to be.
Also this week we spoke to Phil Oakey from The Human League who, I'll be honest. was a bit brighter than I thought he was going to be. I don't know why but I had him down as a bit of a dippy so and so, but twas not the case and he had a few good stories to tell about getting the cane at school - I could identify with that. He also has eight top ten hits under his belt - something I cannot identify with, and never will. Although I do do a good version of Mammi how I love ya. OK lets leave it that I never will do...
Actually it was back to watching tele for me this week. Gordon Ramsay had the All Saints girls on with their mums, and reminded me of when the girls were riding high in the charts and came to Dubai. I got the chance to chat to them and although we were never going to get them to come on the Breakfast show live, I prerecorded lots of bits as if they were with me live on the show. It was the week that one of the Harry Potter books had just been released and I had got a friend to get a copy and bring it over with him and asked the girls to read an excerpt.
I know it's not clever but one of our advertising sales people was messaging me and saying "What do they look like at this time of the day, do they have make-up on, they sound so alive". It's amazing what you can do on the radio convincing you, my dear listener, of what is happening in the studio. Now that has set my mind racing for a few things in the future...
David Blunkett was on the show cooking against Gordon and it was funny watching him read a sign in braille that Gordon had prepared to give the phrase he always does at the end of the guests stint in his kitchen. How can I put this delicately? "Hop it out of my Kitchen!!" Yes that'll do.
Something I like watching is "The Hotel Inspector", I watched this week's one and was amazed by the silly man named Peter Mann, I think it was.
He had been the owner of The Grand Hotel in Hastings for 20 years and by the looks of things hadn't done a single thing in that time to enhance the hotel. Obviously he needed to spend a bob or two after that amount of time of neglect, and I really think they needed to rename it The Two Hundred Grand Hotel.
The Presenter wouldn't even sleep in the beds and slept on top of the duvet as she was a bit worried about catching something. Mr Mann had thought it would be funny to put a stuffed mouse in the bed as a bit of a laugh, but that fell flat as she didn't even get in the bed. But he eventually came round to her way of thinking, or pretended to. He didn't deserve to have her there helping him If he was a Mr Mann he would have been Mr Plonker!
See you next time, if you're not looking the other way.
The full article contains 753 words and appears in Sunderland Echo newspaper.
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Last Updated:
06 June 2008 9:02 AM
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Source:
Sunderland Echo
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Location:
Sunderland