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Suzanne Virdee's sudden departure from BBC Midlands (September 2004)

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GD
g.dyke
Saw Nick in Birmingham today, and suggested that he needed to "pimp his myspace up a bit". He laughed.
MW
Mike W
Saw Nick,Suzanne,Shef,Berneadette Kearney,Peter Sylvian(Signer),David Gregory and John Bray (Producer) in the Midlands Today Newsroom whilst collecting a MT Mug off John Bray like Nicks.
PE
Pete Founding member
g.dyke posted:
Saw Nick in Birmingham today, and suggested that he needed to "pimp his myspace up a bit". He laughed.


I'd laugh if i met you too
SD
sda|
g.dyke posted:
Saw Nick in Birmingham today, and suggested that he needed to "pimp his myspace up a bit". He laughed.


He'll have forgot about it by next week. Now if Levy had one.....
TV
tvmercia Founding member
sda| posted:
g.dyke posted:
Saw Nick in Birmingham today, and suggested that he needed to "pimp his myspace up a bit". He laughed.


He'll have forgot about it by next week. Now if Levy had one.....

oh don't be so cynical stuart, the experiment is for a month iirc.

but yes, i would love peter levy to start a profile - he could link his profile to all his celeb chums like vicky michelle from allo allo and su pollard Laughing
PE
Pete Founding member
Nick's latest blog post posted:
PS Going to pimp up the site soon!


isn't Nick just amazing?
WE
Westy2
Anyone know what BBC Midlands is doing for CIN this year?

So far I've heard on air that Mollie is dressing up as 'Catwoman'(about 2 years after my suggestion on here that she should have done it for the WM mag interview!)!

Those of you who know bits about her off air will know that she has a few cats at home!

One wag (not me, 'cos I'm having trouble texting into the Beeb for some technical reason at the moment!) thought she meant 'Fatwoman'!

We know she's a big girl, according to the 2004 MT/CIN clip, but uncalled for surely!

Mind you though, I wonder if Eartha Kitt's still alive, then WM could get an interview & Eartha could demonstrate rolling her rrrrs to Mollie on air, which will make a change from Mollie rolling on her a**e! (see CIN clip again!) Laughing
GR
gregmc
Nobody has mentioned the new look late news. Nick says on his blog;

Quote:
am presenting our late bulletin again tonight. We've given it a revamp, so the newsreader is standing up with a background of the big screen and the newsroom. Makes a nice change, but working the autocue pedal standing up is a bit awkward. We have to walk to it first and kind of guess where it is. I nearly missed it last night, but just managed to catch the edge of it!
WE
Westy2
No WM Early Show until 6am, because Mollie, for the first time, was actually late! (This scruppered her plan of getting in early to decorate Jane France's desk, as it was her birthday today!)

So we had the whole of the 5 to 6am hour of Five Live for a change, but bloody boring though!

Previous 'lates' have involved technical problems !

For the anoraks, you could've had a clean TOTH at 6am too, if you were about with a tape recorder at the time.

Only other presenter that was late for the Early Show ISTR was Shane O'Connor, now of BBC Radio Derby, back in the Franksy era of the Breakfast Show!
GR
gregmc
Simons having a great time down at BBC C&W today, should have seen him on the lunchtime broadcast!
MA
Matrix
Headline sequence failed to materialise tonight, simply having the headline bed straight into the lead story.

And nasty cock-up, during the national and international headline re-cap, the Greek poisioning story had the wrong VT, VT of Nick's myspace page instead.
WE
Westy2
There was no Jane France helping Mollie on Friday's WM Early Show (& Phil Upton too!), as on her way home on Thursday, a low loader, according to Mollie, decided to try & make a sandwich with her car in the St Chads tunnel in Brum!

Jane was alright, just shaken, said Mollie, who'd spoken to her later on Thursday. (Not sure how the car was though!)

Stepping in was Anastacia the Yank !

(Bit of an exciting week for a change, eh guys?)

Danny Kelly was live from the Classic Car Show at the NEC yesterday too.

'The Match' has started early at 11am today,to cover WBA v Birmingham City, as well as Liverpool v Villa !

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