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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Rutland
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David Van Day: I\'m A Celebrity... top 10 facts
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David Van Day: I'm A Celebrity... top 10 facts 1) Born in 1957, David Van Day got his big break playing Cousin Yellowstone in a stage version of The Wombles. Yet someone spotted the huge talent beneath his furry exterior and by 1976 he was invited to join cabaret band Guys 'n Dolls, alongside future squeeze Thereza Bazar. Here's GnD at their finest in 1976 - the same year the Sex Pistols first hit the charts. As you'll see, they didn't have much in common:
2) DVD quit G'nD in 1978 to form Dollar, with Bazar soon joining him. At first, to be frank, they were rubbish. But superproducer Trevor Horn jumped on board in 1981 and a magnificent string of singles followed, among them Hand Held In Black And White, Videotheque and Mirror Mirror, which came with this amazing promo video:
3) Once Horn had departed for greater things - Frankie Goes To Hollywood, ABC and Art Of Noise among them - Dollar's appeal became more selective and, following arguments between by-now-exes DVD and Therese, they split in 1983. Happily the duo reunited three years later and produced comeback single We Walked In Love, accompanied by possibly the most ridiculous video of all time. Dont miss David's incredible performing hair and the moment when it looks like he's about throw Thereza out of the window:
4) Dollar scored a final big hit in 1987 with their version of Erasure's Oh L'Amour before splitting again a year later. Thereza now lives in Australia with her husband, also called, David and two kids. She and DVD have returned to the Dollar well for several comebacks and performed with a reformed Guys n Dolls earlier this year
5) After a flop solo career, David went on to replace Mike Nolan in a new version of Bucks Fizz now containing only one original member, Bobby G. Yet personal differences led the pair to split and DVD formed a new Bucks Fizz with Nolan while G carried on with his own Fizz. A lengthy court action followed, which DVD likened to "Yasser Arafat versus Ariel Sharon." A bitter Bobby G was forced to admit defeat, telling the BBC: I don't know why David Van Day doesn't go away and call himself the Beatles and give them the bother.
6) By night David was in the Fizz. By day, as was discovered to public delight in 2002, he was running a burger van in Brighton. Though numerous hard-luck stories appeared in print and on TV, DVD insisted the van was merely part of a new business empire also including hotel vending machines and ice cream sales. Now nicknamed 'Burger Van Day' by the popular press, David even appeared to suggest his father had been partly responsible for bringing burgers to England in the first place. He said: "My father had been a travelling showman. He'd seen burgers in America and started making and selling them at fairgrounds in England." Later, pressure from the council led David to shut down his burger empire and open what he dubbed a modern grazing cart, selling waffles.
7) In 2003, Dollar reformed in triumph for little-remembered Davina McCall reality vehicle Reborn In The USA, in which they competed against other ageing luminaries including Elkie Brooks, Gina G and some bloke from Ultimate Kaos for the right to humiliate themselves in America. Alas, DVD and Therese were the first act voted off, after falling out with chirpy Liverpudlian songbird Sonia, who calls him a nasty piece of work on this video. There's no evidence to support that, says our hero.
8) David next attempted to reinvent himself as a politician. But his bid to become a Tory councilor went awry after he told a joke about gay men at a charity dinner. DVD told guests that a gay choir singing at the event would "bend over backwards for anybody" but that he did not want to be "behind them at the time". Curiously this failed to endear him to the voters of Brighton and he fared the worst of three Conservative candidates in his ward, with Labour scoring a resounding victory.
9) David's brilliant defence for his gay jokes was: "It's sad that some people are being so sensitive over what is a joke. People make jokes about my height everyday." For the record, diddy man David is a tiny wee 5-foot-6. The shortarse.
10) DVD has arrived in the jungle minus Page Three girl wife Maria, from whom he has split, but with an exciting new facelift which makes him resemble an overfed chipmunk. Here he is talking about it to TVs Matthew Wright:
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Source: Daily Mirror
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21-11-2008, 03:57 PM
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