Fenella Fudge

[Bbbananas]

Coming back from the sunny side of the duckpond this lunchtime I was listening to Fenella Fudge reading the news on Radio 2.
Now - there's a name that if you didn't know was real, you'd think was made up.

[Bobbisox]

salla thats is sooo funny, I don't think you could make that one up

[Bbbananas]

... just to make sure she hasn't made it up - I've wikipedia'd her. Fenella is in fact her real name. She's younger than I imagined and really quite pretty - a bit like a cross-eyed younger version of Sally Phillips (Tiswas - anyone remember her?)

[Sqad]

Hi Joy....keeping put of trouble?

I had a colleague called Hugh Smelley.

"no a loa people know that!....Michael Caine impression..LOL

[Bobbisox]

lol@salla, is she really cross eyed, good job she's o the radio then..lol

[Chappers]

When I first heard that name I instantly went "what? vanilla fudge?"

Everytime I hear her now I think of that.

[abbie1977]

Chappers, I have always thought her name was Vanilla!! lol Ooops!

[Bobbisox]

trying me best sqads...lol
I keep hearing this voice in my head saying "You can lead a horse to water...." can't think who said it tho' he-he
less of the MC craicks sqads, thats my son in laws real name...honest!

[Bbbananas]

I have a drugs rep that rings me up on a monthly basis - he swears blind his real name is Malcolm Powder. I keep meaning to ask for his business card but so far haven't remembered.

Bobbi Joy - she may not really be cross-eyed, it could be just unfortunate that the particular photo they've used on the bbc website makes her look that way. Bless her.

I'd better be careful what I say - if she's reading I don't want her to give me 'the finger' ................ (of fudge, geddit?) Aaarrrggghhhh

[Bobbisox]

yessss, salla, didn't mean to mock the lady,bless her, she has enough to put up with with that handle
Bobbi x

[Sqad]

salla...left a "snippet " for you on Body and Soul under "Do we have a ghost on AB"

Should amuse you.

[Bbbananas]

Bobbi Joy - 'You can take a horse to water, but you can't make it drink' is a song I've heard on a Jools Holland cd of mine - I think this version is sang by Jools himself along with George Harrison.

They probably got the song title from some age-old saying - maybe a John Wayne film? But, then again, that could be an absolutely rubbish assumption.

[mccfluff]

my mothers name is vamilla, as you can imagine she has heard all the jokes......

[Bobbisox]

salla, the you can lead the horse thingy was good owld sqad when he tried in vain to steer me throgh the turbulent waters which were AB when I wuz a rookie...lol
but did I listen to him...NO!
and the rest as they say is history, got meself into allsorts of scrapes and rubbed people up the wrong way, took it all too seriously and virtually got "hammered" by a good few, but here I am like the proverbial weeble, wobblingbut not falling...lol
not much older but an awful lot wiser thanks to sqad.x

[Ankou]

i think she used to be fenella haddingham until she married mr fudge.

[Bbbananas]

Brilliant... Do you think his surname was part of the attraction? It obviously didn't put her off to know his nickname was more than likely 'Packer'.

If my name was Fanny, I'd purposely go out and find a Mr Payne. Or Fernackapants - but that's hardly likely.

[andy-hughes]

She's got a lovely voice - which is what counts.

Speaking of which - why can't they put out more of Bobbi Pryor reading the travel? She has a nice voice, does the job, doesnt try to pad her part, and doesn't think she is some sort of 'personality' like tha ludicrous Boseman woman. Apart from the fact that she looks lika a pantomime dame, she can't get through two lines of script without stumbling or swallowing, and she seems to think she can add some useful throughts to what ever is being discused at the time she comes on. Pah!

[fieldivision]

Looks as tho she has a hair doo from the 70s, picture on bbc site doesnt do any favours

[Bbbananas]

She has got a lovely voice andy - I was thinking that myself when I was listening to her. I love a deep melodic faintly (only faintly) posh voice. I really like Mariella Frostrup's husky slightly scandinavian voice also - I could listen to her reading the ingredients off a cocoa pops box and still think she sounded lovely.

I am NOT gay.

[Ankou]

i had a teacher once called hazel who was married to philip nutt.

seriosuly i kid you not, they were mr p nutt and hazel nutt. although we just called her mrs nutt.

[Ankou]

well us boys used to wonder at the dulcet tones of the cadburys caramel woman. until we saw her.