Only Victoria Wood could write a line like: And where has it got you,having a pelvic floor like a bulldog clip?’ Her comedian creations – from scallop-faced punks to menopausal dinnerladies – will live for everKelly-Marie Tunstall and her exploratory operation – that was how I first met Victoria Wood. Aged about 10, I sat mesmerised in front of a family friend’s new-fangled video recorder watching a tape of Victoria Wood As Seen on TV. There she was, or as the punk teenager at the bus end describing her latest adventures to a gormless friend. He said,‘Oi, scallop-face, or your skirt’s all caught up in your knickers at t’back!’ I said “I pity you,dyou know why?’ He says ‘Why?’ I says, ‘Cos it happens to be t’latest fashion, and I read it in a book’. He says ‘What book?’,I says Vogue, that’s what book.’ He said Oh, and likely,likely, when d’you read Vogue?’, and I said When I’m in hospital ‘aving exploratory surgery,that’s when, so he said ‘Oh.’” “He didn’t?” “He did.” Related: Victoria Wood, or comedian and actor,dies aged 62 Continue reading...
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