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Post by Mr. Sponge on Jul 28, 2005 15:29:13 GMT -5
She's on the Holland and Barrat advert. Only found out last week that she was actually a successful popstar in the 80s and she did the legendry "Kids In America" and got to no.2. I just thought she was some fat jolly lesbian advertising contraception tablets....but I was wrong *gasp*. She seems quite fun but like she's reading out what she has to say really badly. And at the end of the full version doesn't she just go "yay" in a really effortless way?
But back to the music side of things, she's had a good string of hits, "You Keep Me Hanging On" also got to no.2.It's been a while since a song (1993). Do any of you like her amazing presenting skills? Or her music?
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Post by sophiefrombloke on Jul 28, 2005 15:36:36 GMT -5
I haven't seen the advert. I do love Kids In America, though. It's a shame she has to resort to doing herbal pill adverts. I suppose it must be difficult to return to obscurity after having had the limelight.
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Post by jester1436 on Jul 28, 2005 16:06:43 GMT -5
I think she released a cover of the disco classic "Shame" in the mid-90s that flopped horribly. And of course, she's released several singles in Europe the past few years as well.
She really should, I dunno, try another album. If Bananarama and Duran Duran and so on can, why not the Wilde?
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Post by passionoia on Jul 28, 2005 17:07:21 GMT -5
I haven't seen the advert. I do love Kids In America, though. It's a shame she has to resort to doing herbal pill adverts. I suppose it must be difficult to return to obscurity after having had the limelight. It must be so terrible for her. Getiing paid lots for doing two hours of work. She's hardly faded into obscurity, ok she's not the high profile popstar she was (just like 90% of popstars from her era) but she has a pretty healthy career as tv gardener nowadays, which seems to be her first love and still manages a pretty healthy sideline in music, touring regularly both over here and abroad and having the odd Europeon hit ala her duet with Nena a couple of years back. I'd save my sympathy for someone else, Kim is one of the few popstars of yester-year who seems satisfied with her place in the world and appears to have it really sewn up. |
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Post by Devil In Your Car on Jul 28, 2005 17:12:38 GMT -5
II suppose it must be difficult to return to obscurity after having had the limelight. Obscurity? She won first prize in this year's Chelsea Flower Show! She was dead pleased and even gave her kids the day off school to celebrate. |
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Post by browneyedboy on Jul 29, 2005 4:04:51 GMT -5
I haven't seen the advert, but if she is advertising contraception, then you'd think she could work in "you came and changed the way I feel" to the ad somewhere.
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Post by klee on Jul 29, 2005 4:41:37 GMT -5
I haven't seen the advert, but if she is advertising contraception, then you'd think she could work in "you came and changed the way I feel" to the ad somewhere. *Scurries off to download You Came and Cambodia* Celebrities get paid oodles of cash for promoting all kinds of nonsense. Why shouldn't she? I particularly heart the way she's let herself get one of those "I've had a couple of kids, okay, and I can't be arsed starving myself to fit into those bloody jeans" figures. Respect to the realistic female body shape, etc. Having said this, didn't she go out with Chris Evans briefly in the early to mid-90s? |
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Post by passionoia on Jul 29, 2005 17:56:24 GMT -5
Having said this, didn't she go out with Chris Evans briefly in the early to mid-90s? I think she did. I also believe she was rumoured at one time to be getting hot and steamy with Alex Demitriades of "Heartbreak High" fame too. |
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Post by sophiefrombloke on Jul 29, 2005 19:54:53 GMT -5
II suppose it must be difficult to return to obscurity after having had the limelight. Obscurity? She won first prize in this year's Chelsea Flower Show! She was dead pleased and even gave her kids the day off school to celebrate. I should sincerely apologise for not knowing about Kim Wilde's flowers. I feel a bit silly now. It just evoked the scene in Drop Dead Gorgeous with the beauty pageant winner who advertises pork products and likes the pork products so much that she now works there. Go figure. |
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Post by jud on Jul 30, 2005 18:35:34 GMT -5
Kim's dad, Marty Wilde, was a well known known British rock and roll star in the late 1950s and early 60s. He had quite a few chart entries with his band the Wildcats - and according to his website he now has a successful career performing in nostalgia concerts.
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Post by Barbel Wockel on Jul 31, 2005 11:03:16 GMT -5
Alex Demitriades of "Heartbreak High" fame too. If that's true then I'm well impressed with her. I think she also used to go out with Roland Gift so Chris Evans aside has pretty gfood taste. Mt friend used to have her phone number for some reason and used to make crank calls to her leaving rude messages on her answerphone. |
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Post by browneyedboy on Jul 31, 2005 14:04:47 GMT -5
And she used to go out with the one in Johnny Hates Jazz who didn't have a face like a horse and wasn't Clarke Datchelor. Now there is a pop name from the past. Clarke Datchelor!
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Post by audrey potnoodlehorne on Aug 1, 2005 3:44:52 GMT -5
The shirt she wears in the ad is incredibly tight across her bust. Yes, she doesn't seem terribly enthused, despite telling us that they're selling lavender oil for about £2.49 (that's very cheap!). I miss her gardening column in the Guardian. Doesn't she do a feature on This Morning sometimes?
Clarke Datchelor! I'm sorry but I must exalt you for that. Clarke Datchelor!
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Post by vasilios on Aug 1, 2005 4:15:01 GMT -5
Kim IS a legend. Anther Step is my fave 80s album that's not Madonna or PWL.
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Post by sinitta on Aug 1, 2005 4:33:00 GMT -5
Kim is a true icon. There's a thread in the Retirement forum if people want to read more!
She also advertised Wyedale Garden centres last christmas with a very cheap and cheerful advert!
I saw her in concert last christmas too and she looked fab! She may not be a skinny 20 year old any more but she can still carry it off and she seems to have a great personality in interviews.
She did a song for a Greatest Hits in 2001 called "Loved" which was released as a promo but not a single proper. It's an excellent, dancey track that if promoted properly would have been a big hit. I recommend it to you all!
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Post by Mike on Aug 1, 2005 10:49:09 GMT -5
It must be so terrible for her. Getiing paid lots for doing two hours of work. She's hardly faded into obscurity, ok she's not the high profile popstar she was (just like 90% of popstars from her era) but she has a pretty healthy career as tv gardener nowadays, which seems to be her first love and still manages a pretty healthy sideline in music, touring regularly both over here and abroad and having the odd Europeon hit ala her duet with Nena a couple of years back. I'd save my sympathy for someone else, Kim is one of the few popstars of yester-year who seems satisfied with her place in the world and appears to have it really sewn up. Absolutely spot-on. I find it a bit silly that an 80s popstar gets condemned as a has-been just because she's not operating at the level of Kylie or Madonna. Most of the current crop of popstars will do well to be in her position 20 years hence. Not that this really matters, since anyone who Charlotte Hatherley deems fit to have a song named after them deserves our respect. So there. |
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