Helen on \'Lorraine\'
 

Hi everyone. :wavey:

As someone who unfortunately is not able to watch 'Lorraine' most days, and has a memory like a sieve for remembering to set the video, I've started this thread in the hope that some kind forum members, who are able to watch the programme, can keep me and others updated on what Helen's up to.

Apparently she was on today's show (a recorded piece), so if anyone would like to start the ball rolling and let us know what happened, I would be extremely grateful! :thumbs: :spin2: :thumbs:

Well, I've just watched todays show and Helen wasn't on it, in fact she wasn't even mentioned at all. :bawling:

As chilledbootz said on another thread, she's hardly been on at all recently and it's quite worrying.

However, I have just read a post that hallie made on TalkBB where she says how she has heard back from GMTV after having made in enquiry about Helen, and that she was told that Helen is still very much part of Lorraine's team and that she has just been of doing 'various projects'. So it looks as though Helen will be back soon. Let's hope so. :thumbs:

I'll try and keep you updated until I go back to work. (After that, I can't, my video timer is kaput)

After her 5 x in one week appearances w/c 7.1.02, Helen had one prerecorded appearance on Tues last week, and has had one this Tuesday. Although I will keep a look out, I'm not really expecting to see her again this week.

As you probably know, quite a few of us rang and emailed our concerns to sky/GMTV and extolled her virtues. Good old hallie persevered and got them to ring back with an answer.

I'm sure the interest and expressions of concern won't have gone amiss for Helen, and I don't feel as pessimistic about her Sky future as I did.

Trying to be positive!:thumbs:

OK, so no Helen today again, but tomorrow she is going to be on, according to Lorraine, looking at the 'hottest handbags'.

I feel a Mr Clarke mention coming on...............:hello::love::hello:

Good, at last!!

It's looks like we were all worrying about nothing. :bouncy:

Oh - that's not fair. I can't watch it tomorrow, 'cos I've got to go to work. :bawling:

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Fantastic!! Cheers, R.O.B. :thumbs:

Absolutely - any discussion about hottest handbags will have to involve Helen's lovely little black Gucci number from Mr Clarke, won't it? :spin2: :love: :laugh:

Fraid not Kaz! What a disappointment for a girl!
Re:today's Lorraine.
Today's session was just a pre-recorded tape of Helen shopping in the high street for an evening bag 'to take to my friend Sam's cocktail party'

I thought she said her Gucci bag was all she needed, although I suppose she needed some premise to go.

No PC mention, even when she went to Gucci.

Now, let's all remain calm shall we. I'm doing some deep breathing and positive thinking. It would have helped if I hadn't read that somewhat cryptic posting by Vix. What HAS been said?

I am now going down to immerse myself to happier days, as I'm on week 6 of Dolly's tapes.

I do not wish to be disturbed by harbingers of doom. I am returning to ROB's little world.

I may speak to you later. Please don't scare me, I'm fragile.

Oh dear - and after I'd remembered to set my video too.

I was somewhat puzzled by Vix's comments too. Although she did say 'rest assured', which I took to mean she was reassuring chilledbootz that all was well, the rest of the sentence was a bit misleading. However, she did say that none of the 'exclusives' were in relation to H&P, which I took to mean that there would be no shock revelations about them.

We have to remember that, whatever Stuart said in the interview, it is just his opinion of how he sees the relationship - and who knows, his comments might be positive after all!

I think we've learned our lesson in the past that too much speculation and letting our imaginations run riot is not good for our health, so I'm just going to 'chill my boots' and wait until the interview is posted up. :spin2:

Re: Lorraine this morning.

No Helen, and no mention re: tomorrow, although hallie rang up immediately and was assured Helen was still part of the show, but had 'other commitments'.

I hope these are real, fruitful commitments for her future, and not fanciful PR cover-ups. I'm really not being paranoid here, it's just that these euphemisms are often rolled out for public figures, i.e.

Spending more time with his family (sacked)
Just good friends
(Having a rampant and steamy affair)
I have complete faith in him as a manager
(Start looking in the Sunday league)

No doubt we will all find out sooner or later.

brian made two brief appearances though, chatting to Ben at the premiere of that Monsters film.

Basically he said he thought he should replace Kym in Hearsay, and when asked who he thought was the real monster in the BB house said, 'Oh, I couldn't say!.. Narinder!' I just have a feeling he had someone else in mind and thought Naz would forgive him that one!

I'm going to be optimistic about these new committments. Her video is still doing really well, and probably far better than anyone imagined. She really is right up there with Tracy Shaw and Patsy Palmer, which shows how much the public still love her. That will have proven to cynical tv people that Helen's bubble has by no means burst. After all, people are willing to spend actual money to see her, so they're bound to be willing to switch the tv on.

The point I'm meandering towards is that it's quite likely she will have been approached to take part in new, more adventurous projects. It could all be in the early, discussion stages, so we shouldn't get too excited, nor expect any announcements too soon. After all, they only announced Brian would be doing smtv right at the last minute, even though it had obviously been in the pipeline for months.

ROB - I have another theory especially for you, but it's RESTRICTED, so I sent you a U2U. :flower:

Thanks for the update, ROB. :thumbs:

It's disappointing that Helen hasn't been 'live' on Lorraine for a while now, but I think Feefs is right - we should look on the fact that Helen has other commitments in a positive light. Hopefully when these projects come to fruition it will mean that we will see a lot more of her on TV.
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Could anyone tell me if Helen was on lorraine today?

Yes she was. Not live in the studio unfortunately. She had another weird beauty treatement. She was her normal bright as a button self. Regards. bananarama:colour::colour::spin2:

Thanks for that, bananarama. As usual I forgot to set my video in case!! Hopefully she'll be back live in the studio soon.

Welcome to the board - hope you enjoy posting here!! :xyxwave:

I am beginning to wonder about that! The format of the show has been modified. They don't normally have the happy little group sitting all together having a friendly chat at the beginning of the show now. I suspect that Sky has cut down on the shows budget.:conf::bouncy:

I think you're right, bananarama!

Helen is not the only one who is seen less often and more or less exclusively in pre-recorded slots.

Perhaps the whole Sky morning TV concept has been 'down-sized' because it has brought in the revenue they hoped for. It was spread across the whole morning originally. Maybe it is going to be scrapped.

Lorraine seems to be putting more into her 8.35am LK Today spot on GMTV, and quite a few of her Sky presenters are on there with her. Not Helen though, unfortunately.

Anyway, today's Lorraine, just skimmed through. H not on, but is the subject of Mondays 'Grand in your hand' question.

Does the Lorraine show's Helen Adams originally come from?

Is it

Ireland, Wales or France? Errrrrr - tricky?

Telephone 09050 626160. I never do it because I'd be all embarassed.

Any rode up, according to Lorraine, 'our Helen' is on tomorrow,

'swopping her designer shoes for wellies when we send her down on the farm'.

Mmmm, is Farmer Giles going to smear her with yogurt? Or something worse?

Let's hope it's a nice traditional farmyard. Lot's of ooooh's over the cute animals and eurghhhs over the smell and muck!:flower:

Thanks ROB. :wavey:

If Helen's going to be down on the farm tomorrow, it surely can't be a beauty product related item, can it? Or have they brought out a new horse manure conditioning body treatment and I've missed it?!! :shocked:

Look forward to tomorrow's thrilling instalment - you're doing a great job. :thumbs:

Helen was down at Bunce's meadow and Deen City Farm, as the second of the 'regulars' to be doing something completely different.

Lorraine said they had decided to send Helen there because she said 'OOOoh, I like pigs, they're pink!'

She had to feed the lambs and a cow, and muck out the pigs. You can imagine! She didn't look too comfortable in the pens, and memories of chicken cleaning sprang to mind. Then she sort of groomed a horse, and said things like 'Ooooh, nice burm, I love his burm.' as she stroked it and smiled other burms came to mind for me, and I'm pretty sure for her too! Just imagine being able to stroke Mr Clarke's burm at will!

She tried to plait the horses tail but got a bit nervous, and settled instead for brushing and trimming a long haired guinea pig!

Lorraine said 'It'll be covered in sequins and glitter next!'

Hallie thought it was filmed some time ago, as Helen's hair was quite short and up, but I'm not so sure. She wasn't really suitably dressed, wearing that short black suede jacket with leather trims. Gloves on all the time, sensibly. She looked fine and obviously had a laugh!

As hallie pointed out, there are probably a good few classic out-takes!

You can just imagine her saying that, can't you! :laugh:

Sounds like it was a good assignment for her, which allowed her lovely bubbly personality to shine. It's good to hear they're referring to her as a 'regular' too - bodes well for an extension to her contract (here's hoping).

R.O.B. - me thinks you are somewhat obsessed with a certain part of Mr Clarke's anatomy, no? :blush:

Kaz, a thing of beauty is a joy forever....

It's simply the best, better than all the rest!!:blush: :colour::dazzler:

No mention of our Helen at all again today. :bawling: (Unless she was mentioned in the first 5 mins which I missed)

It certainly doesn't bode well for seeing her much on the show in the future.

After Lorraine finished I flicked over to BBC1 and realisd that Craig was on Housecall. I didn't think much of the programme as a whole, but I thought Craig was good, he was very enthusiastic and looked at though he was having a great laugh.

Housecall is on BBC1 every day at 10am. I'm not sure how often Craig is on, but the main presenter certainly mentioned him being there tomorrow so it might be every day.

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Lee,

I agree it's not good that those two bewigged poppinjays seem to have taken over Helen's Monday hair makeover spot.

However, she was mentioned, at the end.
She is going to see 'the woman resposible for Madonna's face' and thet will be on tomorrow!

Let's think positive, and if you want to express your disappointment directly to Sky, it's

lorraine@sky.com

I don't suppose it will make any difference, but it's worth a try. They never answer though, how rude!:mad:

Ooh, I missed that, thanks ROB. I must have been concentrating more on the work I was supposed to be doing at that point. :shocked: That'll teach me to get my priorities right in future. :laugh:

Well, Helen may have met the woman responsible for Madonna's face, but all that really happened is that she had another facial!

No doubt a Reaaally expensive one though, and it started with a foot soak, which I suppose is a little different. Problem is, a facial feels really LUSH, (I had one once, I've lived!) but it isn't a great spectator sport. Her skin seemed to flare up quite badly in the middle of it, probably it has reached it's tolerance level.

This is what worries me most, they seem to have a sad lack of ideas of what to do with her. She can't really shine in these scenarios. They also seem to take on more and more regulars. I think she could have done so much more than this, shame.

On the plus side, Helen did nod off again. She was actually doing the baby suck reflex thing, all that was missing was the dummy! She is an incredibly relaxed person isn't she? I'm sure she'll cope with whatever fate holds in store for her.

Bless her, the camera may add a few pounds, and I certainly can't talk, but those shots of her do seem to accentuate her roundness. Now, you know I'm not one to talk, but......

She looked relaxed and happy, and she kept that ring on all the time, even when her hands and fingers were massaged.

let's hope they give her something more exciting to do soon. Maybe when Pop Idol is over

It is certainly frustrating that they are not taking advantage of Helens bubbly personality. When you compare Helen to the (boring) hair stylists they have found somewhere out of the wood work. There is simply no competition. For what it is worth I think I will email lorrain@sky right now......:xyxwave:

That was good of them to include a good hand with ring shot - just for you I'm sure!
Typical! Here we are fretting about her future in television and she's dozing. I bet Paul couldn't care less if we never got a bum shot of him again either!
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I'm beginning to despair of ever seeing Helen or Paul on anything worth watching ever again. I'm sick of Lorraine's show, it is the most boring dross most of the time, and I HAVE to tape it every single day now, in the increasingly forlorn hope that she will ever be allowed to appear in the studio or have anything natural or interesting to say. I know we have Paul on Night Fever two weeks running to look forward to, but it's not enough. He can move his tush on Night Fever but I'd like to hear him speak as well! It seems inevitable that Helen's days on Lorraine are coming to an end. They don't seem to have a clue what to do with her. These constant facials are just ridiculous and make her appear braindead. Well, that's my rant over. By the way I emailed Lorraine's show on Sky and got a reply from someone at GMTV. What is the connection between the two shows, does anyone know?

It's the same studio, production company and presumably staff. What did they say in the email? We definitely need to get our ideas for Helen together and send them in. I don't think anyone is going to contribute any more to the thread on TBB. I'll have a look at is, and maybe copy some of them across here in case there's some additional inspiration.

Also - 2 Night Fevers in a row with PC? Brilliant - I thought we were just getting one. That's cheered me up :colour::hello:

Peachy.

How long did you have to wait for a reply? I have e-mailed and had no reply to-date!

Was the reply informative in any way?:conf:

I emailed Lorraine weeks and weeks ago, when there was a thread on TBB about Helen being wasted on the show. I sent a great long rambling effort praising the show and saying I'd like to see more of helen. The email I got back on Wednesday was a little odd, it didn't answer anything. I've copied and pasted it for you. I think it was sent to me by mistake. This is all it said:
It has been brought to my attention that Ife has been receiving E-mails from
Lorraine SKY viewers via yourself.

Please could you remove her from your list and from now forward E-mails to
myself for response.

Many thanks
Marion

Any ideas on what this means anyone?

Cryptic!!!

Did marion! give a different e-mail address to that which you sent yours?:shocked:

Suffice it to say Marian has had another email from me!

Anyway, today's Lorraine.
She wasn't on, and I didn't watch it but just went to look on tape at her announcements for next week. Apparently someone called Natasha Kaplinsky, a Sky newsreader, is covering for Lorraine next week, which is a Valentine's special.

Then Lorraine really caused my heart to skip a beat when she said...............

'and Helen and Paul will be out helping couples and playing cupid!'

Then I realised she probably meant Paul Tompkinson..............................

Still, at least Helen's on!

Sorry I meant to include the email for 'Marion'. Her name is Marion.Waldorf@gmtv.co.uk

OK, today, as we suspected, she was on with Paul Tonkinson doing a sort of 'Streetmate' in Covent Garden.

Helen was quite bubbly and funny. The girl she picked had obviously just asked H about P (in my opinion) when the scene returned to her. Helen said 'Now, let's find YOU the man of YOUR dreams!'

Then the couple were in the studio minus Helen and Paul T, for the foppish Mark Hill to do over the hair instead of our Helen! Why?

I don't think she's on tomorrow, but Paul T is getting a colonic irrigation! Good organisation Helen, stick to the facials girlfriend!

Now for all you other old girls out there, this colonic irrigation sounds a lot like one of those soap and water enemas they used to give before childbirth!

Now, I can't do any of the Lorraine watches until Friday, so please, one of you make sure it's all taped just in case we get that on air proposal on Valentines Day!
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Helen was on again today.

Some young girls had won the opportunity to perform a dance routine at the premiere of 'Cinderella 2' and Helen was helping them to learn their dance routine.

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It was a really perfect thing for her to do and she was very enthusiastic and looked as though she was really enjoying it. :spin2:

The girls were called 'The Glitter Girls' so of course our Helen had to help them get all sparkly for the performance.

She then went around asking various celebrity guests what they thought of the girls performance, and finally we saw her in the studio trying to teach the woman who was standing in for Lorraine (I should know her name, but I can't remember it) how to do the dance routine.

It's the first time I've been in when she's been on for ages and I thought she did really well. Let's hope that she's on for a long time to come and that the end of this month isn't the end of her contract.

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I agree with Lee Helen was really good today and best of all was live in the studio and on the sofa at the top of the show as she always used to be. She looked really good and happy and was on a lot. I felt a little encouraged that perhaps her contract is not going to end. I remember that she started on the show the day the children went back to school in September. If she had a six month contract with the show I would have thought it would have ended by now. Do you think I'm right? Im going to email Lorraine's show and tell them I liked them using the regulars more this week, especially helen, of course. Will anyone else who has the time do the same? If they get some positive feedback it might encourage them to use her more.

To which you (I/we) would have replied "Great, did you leave him doing a spot of decorating?" :laugh:

All those things sound very promising and much better than the endless facials. I will definitely be sending an email to welcome this change of tack and offer a few suggestions of my own. I wonder if they are taking advantage of the way kids love Helen during the holidays. This is good, but I hope they realise us more mature types love her too. :flower:

What a pleasant surprise to see Helen live in the studio again. She was in her element. Confident and bubbly as ever.Helen at her best. For a brief time it was as though she was the main presenter and it gave the program such a tonic. Well it made my day anyway.:colour::laugh::laugh:

That's exactly what I felt Bananarama. I really feel that although Lorraine is very professional her show just lately has been SO stale and boring. Helen gave it life. As Brian would say 'the girl's just got colour'!