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

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TE
tellywatcher
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TE
tellywatcher
Nice to see that Bob is finally back! Smile

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t176/zukeylukey/ITV12009-01-02_175755.jpg
RD
RDJ
Along with a montage of his best bits at the end of Central Tonight as Llewella presented him with some sort of award due to his services to broadcasting.
ON
onsky
Bob looks well, and Llewella is still there aswell!
RM
Roger Mellie
onsky posted:
Bob looks well, and Llewella is still there aswell!


She has a bad case of trapped wind though, by the looks of it! Wink
OH
ohdearme
Don't know if it's just an unfortunate grab but she looks as if she's put on quite a bit of weight!?

When does she leave? I thought she had left!
TE
tellywatcher
RDJ posted:
Along with a montage of his best bits at the end of Central Tonight as Llewella presented him with some sort of award due to his services to broadcasting.

...and much deserved it was too.
http://vid160.photobucket.com/albums/t176/zukeylukey/CTBOB.flv

ohdearme posted:
Don't know if it's just an unfortunate grab but she looks as if she's put on quite a bit of weight!?

I think it was to be honest, she doesn't look any different to me!
IS
Isonstine Founding member
What a dream the programme was tonight with the old school well and truly at the helm. It just has a completely different feel. Good to see Bob back, I did fear that he wouldn't return following his absence. Although with the award - perhaps he's only back for a short spell for his swan song?
WE
Westy2
When was the last time Bob did any 'front line' reporting?

Must be sometime in the 80's, judging by some of those clips!
AS
asiancutie123
ur right, lwella has turned in to a right lump of lard
TL
temporary, like achilles
Bizarre 'falling between two stools' of misguided populist folly: on one hand you have the excruciating (whom my old mother would've most certainly described as 'common') Kite + 'foil', and on the other dear old Llew n'Bob, both of whom now (sadly) have the air of the classic, bemused cartoon characters momentarily suspended in mid air (having rushed over the cliff edge) immediately prior to their comedy plummets.
And the future is to be Bob and the implausibly, nigh comically and doggedly inept Sameena, Zombie Autocue Queen non pareil?
Eh?
How does anyone arrive at the conclusion that this is the ratings clawback combination?
Not only that, the one person in possession of a most inexplicably unexploited charm and idiosyncratic charisma, 'bubbly' and elfin Yvonne Gaskill, has been dumped even more unceremoniously than that fellow iconic traveller, the Malin person.
To be replaced by smirking, unprepossessing mediocrities.
Presumably the contemptuously transparent agenda is to so devalue the whole basis of ITV local news that when the inevitable demise occurs everyone will just be relieved to have the thing put out of its misery.
IS
Isonstine Founding member
like achilles posted:
Bizarre 'falling between two stools' of misguided populist folly: on one hand you have the excruciating (whom my old mother would've most certainly described as 'common') Kite + 'foil', and on the other dear old Llew n'Bob, both of whom now (sadly) have the air of the classic, bemused cartoon characters momentarily suspended in mid air (having rushed over the cliff edge) immediately prior to their comedy plummets.
And the future is to be Bob and the implausibly, nigh comically and doggedly inept Sameena, Zombie Autocue Queen non pareil?
Eh?
How does anyone arrive at the conclusion that this is the ratings clawback combination?
Not only that, the one person in possession of a most inexplicably unexploited charm and idiosyncratic charisma, 'bubbly' and elfin Yvonne Gaskill, has been dumped even more unceremoniously than that fellow iconic traveller, the Malin person.
To be replaced by smirking, unprepossessing mediocrities.
Presumably the contemptuously transparent agenda is to so devalue the whole basis of ITV local news that when the inevitable demise occurs everyone will just be relieved to have the thing put out of its misery.


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