WELCOME TO BELLAMY'S BABES (FAN CLUB)
Bellamy's Babes fanclub founder Patricia Webb (above, right) runs the Bellamy's People . She'll also be keeping us up to date with fanclub activities each week on the blog. She writes...Hullo hullo and welcome to the most important site on the whole of the internet!! Gary has gone global!
Let me introduce myself. I am Bellamy's Babe Patricia Webb AKA Gary Bellamy's number one fan!!! It's no coincidence that Gary Bellamy has the same initials as our very own country Great Britain and like Great Britain he is quite simply The Best.
If you've not heard of Gary before (and if so, where have you been? Mars?!!) then let me tell you what a treat you have in store. Gary Bellamy is a radio DJ, TV star, newspaper man (he's had a column Gary's Soapbox in his local paper The St. Albans Echo for the last two years), love god (tee hee) and all round Bees Knees. Question - do bees have knees? Answers on a postcard purrlease! (I bet Gary would know. He's dead clever.)
I first saw Gary Bellamy (swoon! swoon!) when I was flicking through my TV Times and there was the tiniest photo of him on the letters page. Turned out he's offended someone with his views on gays. As usual with most shock jocks, he was misunderstood. Gary has always been a big fan of gays. He even gives part of his earnings in a standing order to Madame JoJo's gay nightclub. So there, doubters! Ìý
And then one day I turned on the radio and I heard THAT voice. Like treacle. And gravel. And custard. And Vicks vapour rub all rolled into one. (My husband Bill says sometimes he can sound a bit camp and I have to say I agree with him but that only adds to his charm. I mean, look at Rock Hudson.)
The only bad news I have to pass on about Gary is that he has a fiancée (will they ever tie the knot? Let's hope not!) called Michaela (cue panto hissing - hisssssssss! - Debbie, Gary's no 2 fan and the co-founder of Bellamy's Babes and I always do this whenever Michaela is mentioned. It's great fun! Join in!) We don't have anything against Michaela (hisssss!) personally. I'm sure she's a lovely girl. After all, anyone the Great Gary Bellamy chooses to spend his bed, sink and bog with has to have something good about them. As I say, it's nothing personal. We just want her dead! Tee hee! Anyone know a friendly axe murderer? Tee hee!
So, feast your eyes on the piccies (haven't managed to get a topless one yet but I'm working on it! - anyone papped Gary on hols??), look and learn on the Gary Factotum and keep those messages and wall posts and letters and e-mails and faxes coming. Rest assured that ALL fan mail is answered. We have a one hundred percent reply rate. To date we have answered over fifteen fan letters!!! Eat your heart out The Beetles! Ìý
Yours truly
Patricia Bellamy (tee hee!)
The Making of Bellamy's People of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Episode One
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THE GARY FACTOTUM: THINGS ABOUT GARY BELLAMY YOU JUST HAVE TO KNOW BY PATRICIA HIS NUMBER ONE FAN.
- His middle name is Richard. As in Richard Digance, Richard Chamberlain and Richard Madeley! Swoon swoon and treble swoon!
- Gary once accidentally brushed me on the boob. I have the photos to prove it!
- Gary is a Piscean but - it's mad this! - he doesn't eat fish!!!!! Go figure as they say in the USA!!! I went there once in 83. I think it's overrated.
- Gary's favourite expression is "Let the good times roll!" Let me into your life Gary and they certainly will roll!
- Gary's height in socked feet is 4'9"
- Gary has got one grey underarm hair! Well not any more because I've got it in my scrap book!!
- Gary has slept with two women in his lifetime. (Let's make it a hat trick eh Gary?)
- People Gary most admires - Richard Littlejohn, Simone de Beauvoir and Friar Tuck from the Robin Hood tales.
Comment number 1.
At 22nd Jan 2010, The Bimbler wrote:I watched the first episode of Bellamy's People last night and thought it was one of the worst comedies I had seen in a long time. It consisted of Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse dressed up as various odd characters. However the dialogue which accompanied this was bereft of any comedic quality. Laugh out Loud I did not! Paul Whitehouse's recent 90 second TV adds were funnier than this. I appreciate that this was transferred from a Radio Four programme. Sometimes this works, this time it didn't. Higson and Whitehouse will have to do much better than this to approach the standard of their work on the Fast Show of many years ago.
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Comment number 2.
At 23rd Jan 2010, bluedivemonkey wrote:I was really looking forward to this, but sorely disappointed and turned off after about 15 minutes. Sorry, but this really didn't work for me and was nowhere near the brilliance of the Fast Show. The characters seemed mundane and not even slightly funny!
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Comment number 3.
At 28th Jan 2010, dave wrote:I loved the show. Especially Felix Dexter. Good to see him again.
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Comment number 4.
At 29th Jan 2010, spalex wrote:Though this was excellent, some characters were very close to the bone - and because they're not real its alright to laugh at them. Perhaps the comments who dont find it funny, dont get it/ dont appreciate the level of detail. This is some of the best comedy acting I have seen in years.
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At 12th Feb 2010, Daniel Clarke wrote:A surprising hit for me. I watched it by chance on Ö÷²¥´óÐã iplayer. Some of the characters are alright, others are brilliant. Former 'Fast Show' guys, Whitehouse, Higson and Day, are very welcome back on the TV screens. The characters Higson and Day play are the stand out performances in the show.
Great show.
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Comment number 6.
At 17th Feb 2010, Jerry Kennard wrote:Bimbler ( or is it Bumbler?) are you watching the same programme as me?
great originality, fab new characters set in an interesting format. The detail is incredible and the humour veers from subtle (you probably missed it...) to provocative. I can't recommend this programme enough, but you need to connect! The writers have blended some predictable belly laughable characters with one or two who require our sympathy (funny how traditional british values bring this out - episode 4)!!
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Comment number 7.
At 20th Feb 2010, Daniel Clarke wrote:re: The_Bimplers comments. I really can't see how this comedy can be said to be 'bereft' of comedy. They've beautifully taken apart social trends and stereotypes, this is where the humour lies. Brilliant observational and character comedy that seems to get even better as the series progresses.
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