My Darling Feltz

The wikipedia entry for Vanessa Feltz actually read like this...

"Vanessa Feltz was born in Islington and grew up in Totteridge. On her radio show she frequently refers to Totteridge as "the Beverly Hills of North London", and her middle-class Jewish background as like "growing up in Fiddler on the Roof". Her father Norman was in the lingerie business. Her mother Valerie (nee Ohrenstein) was a housewife who died from cancer at the age of 57 in 1995. She has one sister who runs a violin and roof repair shop in London."

I'm deadly serious. Just one of those brutal and horrific things that affect us all i suppose. And then...

"Her career peaked when she presented the ITV daytime television chat show Vanessa made by independent TV company, Anglia Television. She moved to the BBC to host a similar show, The Vanessa Show, in 1998 in a reported £2 million deal, when demands for a doubling of her wages to £2.75m million fell on deaf ears. ITV replaced her show with Trisha."

Oh but does it get better? Nope...

"It has been speculated that Vanessa's appearance on (and subsequent close association with) Big Brother actually helped revive her media career, rather than to destroy it."

Oh and because of it...

"In recent years Feltz has been a regular guest on The Wright Stuff and presented two series of Cosmetic Surgery Live, both screened on Five."

Brilliant.