Judith Chalmers DEAD

[rhythmbandit]

https://news.sky.com/story/tv-presenter-judith-chalmers-who-hosted-wish-you-were-here-has-died-13547011

 

[Agneeta]

I wish she was here

 

[Agneeta]

I don't see the phrase "a right Judith Chalmer" ever dying off.

I've just realised how much I mixed her up with Gloria Hunniford.

 

[VV]

She'll be forever associated with the Royle Family for me!

 

[Halli]

I don't remember much of her but know the phrase Ag mentioned. Jill Dando was more associated with those holiday programmes for me (Sadly dead now, of course).

Judith's son is a presenter too isn't he. There were a few years he was on quite a lot of shows, but not heard much of him for a while

 

[hyperwoof]

Are you absolutely sure she hasn't just taken a late deal to Alicante?

 

[Shirley]

Sorry but I just can't with this one

I don't remember much of her but know the phrase Ag mentioned. Jill Dando was more associated with those holiday programmes for me (Sadly dead now, of course).

Judith's son is a presenter too isn't he. There were a few years he was on quite a lot of shows, but not heard much of him for a while

Nobody who saw RI:SE, and there weren't many, will ever forget it

 

[Halli]

RI:SE ! Completely forgot about that. I tuned in, and forgot about it..

It had Edith Bowman too, didn't it, and LIZ BONNIN!

 

[FetchFugly]

Sad news. Wish You Were Here was very much a tv staple in my childhood.

 

[lolly]

Was Victoria Wood's Joan (of Margery and Joan) based on Judith Chalmers? I like to think so.

 

[Shirley]

In the hands of Victoria Wood, she became an object of parody: a character who was clearly modelled on Chalmers, all chirpiness and tanned skin, turned up in Wood’s sketches. “I came out looking more like her than I intended,” Wood said. “I’d hate to think she minded. If she did, I’d stop.”

 

[ILL ADVISED]

Did anyone else’s parents used to say when gossiping about a neighbour or relative

Oooh eck she goes on more holidays than Judith Chalmers

 

[lolly]

Did anyone else’s parents used to say when gossiping about a neighbour or relative

Oooh eck she goes on more holidays than Judith Chalmers

Isn't that exactly what Ag has said above?

But yes, very common parlance.

 

[VoR]

My first thought was for poor Barry of Barry and Freda.

 

[Shirley]

Who knew

 

[Doris]

One of the few celebs I’ve seen in real life. We were in Fermanagh in the summer of 1985 and she was there filming Wish You Were Here, having her lunch at the same hotel we were at. In mid-eighties Northern Ireland, that was the HEIGHT of excitement.

 

[Lucille]

She really was the HEIGHT of aspiration for me as a child, I could think of nothing more glamorous than being paid to go on LOVELY HOLIDAYS.

 

[Sheena]

“I’m so old I remember Judith Chalmers before she was brown”