We welcome with - ahem - open arms the world of work once again...
...to find another of those "you know you're getting old when..." moments.
For none other than the annoying "Violet Elizabeth Bott" from the Just William television series of my youth, the overly-effervescent Bonnie Langford is 60 years old today!
Nowadays possibly better remembered as one of Doctor Who's companions "Mel", or maybe as a contestant on Dancing on Ice, or perhaps for her role as "Carmel Kazemi" in EastEnders, she is actually a brilliantly talented dancer and singer on a variety of stages - with a lot of talent in her extended family, being the aunt of West End actresses Summer, Scarlett and Zizi Strallen - including in panto, and as the star of productions of Guys & Dolls, Chicago, 9 to 5 and 42nd Street, as well as taking her turn in the faboo Sondheim tribute gala Old Friends in 2022 [and we saw her at the Sondheim 75th birthday gala Children Will Listen in 2005]. A trouper!
On this Tacky Music Monday, here she is in fine form, with a bevy of safety gays:
Many happy returns, Bonnie Langford (born Bonita Melody Lysette Langford, 22nd July 1964)
Have a good week, dear reader.
She’s something else and she had some hunky safety gays.
ReplyDeleteIf this clip is, as I suspect, from "The Hot Shoe Show" in the 1980s, then those hunks were probably hand-picked by her co-star, the pocket-sized gayer Wayne Sleep..! Jx
DeleteI wasn't familiar with her and from the pictures, she has the look of she can be waayyyy to cheerful for a Monday. I hope I can get through a whole full week, .gulp.
ReplyDeleteShe was always typecast as "bubbly" - but underneath all that, she's definitely a very talented lady. What did you think of the routine, and/or the safety gays? Jx
DeleteLove her to bits. she has had to put up with a lot of stick and has done so with good humour
ReplyDeleteNothing ever seems to stop her smiling. Jx
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