Norton Your Nelly!
Absolutely loved this picture from the BBC iPlayer site last week featuring gay and somewhat feminist comedienne Sandi Toksvig reading our magazine.
Sandi was a guest on the same Graham Norton Show where Gilly and a bunch of her girlfriends demonstrated sploshing on the programme last year. And although she seems somewhat disgusted by the contents of our fine magazine, she actually took it all with good grace, though I can’t see her rushing to take part!
The item which featured Gilly and the gang covering each other in custard, cake sitting and filling each other’s knickers ran on and off throughout the original show and proved so popular, an edited version made it onto the Best of Graham Norton compilation shown last week (hence the listing on iPlayer).
Other guests on our show included rock singer Alice Cooper, a bit of an icon for me in my teenage days, and I am delghted to say I now have his autograph. He seemed somewhat more amused by sploshing than Ms Toksvig.
And although he may not remember it, this is not the first time Graham Norton has encountered our magazine. Many years ago before he was a Five Million Pound Celebrity, he hosted a late night show on ITV called Carnal Knowledge where couples were quizzed on what they knew abut sex. One round featured was a sort of “What’s My Line” with a mystery guest miming his occupation and the couples having to guess what they did for a living. Well, one week it was me! I duly mimed making up custard pies and let them try and guess my bizarre job but nobody got close. I was then allowed to plug the magazine weith Graham for three minutes during which time he moaned about the cover price but held the magazine up to the camera so I didn’t complain.
Less enjoyable was the run up to the show. As I was a ‘mystery guest’, I wasn’t allowed to join all the others in ‘hospitality’. Instead I was locked in a small room the size of a cupboard and given a crate of Becks to work my way through! Since the show ran rather late, the Becks ran out before I did, but I was certainly ‘chatty’. In fact I remember them telling me off for not giving yes and no answers to the cntestant’ questions but full sentences – and more!
Carnal Knowledge still gets shown occasionally on Challenge TV and the like, and as well as launching Graham Norton ( a dubious merit), it also put me back in touch with an old school girlfriend who I hadn’t seen for 20 odd years. She saw the show and e-mailed me with the line, “Congratulations on the magazine – shame about the baldness. Do get in touch.” We have been ever since and not only has she had a messy session in the studio, but now has a framed copy of Splosh! No 35 in her bathroom!
You see, sploshers are everywhere…
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