Writing Dirty Feed can lead you down some strange avenues, and making some strange comparisons. Right now, I’m reading about Chris Morris and Fanny Cradock. What the hell do that pair have in common....
UK readers probably remember (or are at least aware of) this country's first famous celebrity chef, Fanny Craddock.
You might also have heard the well known anecdote about how she stormed out of the Parkinson talk show studio after finding out that fellow guest Danny La Rue was a man in drag. It's cited in The Guardian, on Wikipedia, just about everywhere.
Except, as this latest impeccably-researched post in the really excellent Dirty Feed UK TV blog explains, it never happened and never even could have happened.
Fanny, I Want Fanny (www.dirtyfeed.org)
Writing Dirty Feed can lead you down some strange avenues, and making some strange comparisons. Right now, I’m reading about Chris Morris and Fanny Cradock. What the hell do that pair have in common....