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Clarissa Dickson Wright RIP

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  • #2
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    ryanf1 wrote: »
    The death has taken place of the second of the Two Fat ladies, Clarissa Dickson Wright.
    The end of an era really
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/clarissa-dickson-wright-dead-two-fat-ladies-star-passes-away-aged-66-her-agency-confirms-9197231.html


    RIP 8.


  • #3
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    She liked her drink then liked her food she lived life as she wanted and didn't fret too much about it all and why not.


  • #4
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,839 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Full fat cream, butter, cheese etc.

    My kind of cook.

    I doubt she ever gave a second thought to cholesterol and calorie counting.

    I always got the impression she would be great craic to go on the lash with.


    RIP.


  • #5
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I loved watching the 2 of them. They were far more entertaining than any other cookery shows. They totally outclassed the likes of Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay.


  • #6
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    I haven't read her autobiography in full, but here's an extract - not for titillation, but for her searing honesty:
    My most extraordinary venue was behind the Speaker's Chair in the House of Commons. My partner, an MP I won't name, suggested during the summer vacation that I might like to see the floor of the House.
    It was all rather hurried and breathless, and was more about being daring than the joy of sex, but the memory still makes me laugh when I watch all those politicians pontificating.
    But as drink took hold of me, sex became something much darker and more destructive. I would go to Irish pubs in Kilburn not only to drink in dangerous company but to pick up men, usually Republican sympathisers.
    They were men with no faces, no names as far as I was concerned. Rough trade, you might call them, and they were there for only one thing.
    Once one of them threatened not to leave the next morning and I picked up a claw hammer and told him to go before I knee-capped him. He went.


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  • #7
    Hootanany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    The book is brilliant a must read


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