News about Victoria Wood
Head chef at country hotel wins £80,000 after his boss sexually harassed him by singing Victoria Wood's classic 'Ballad of Barry and Freda' to him
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April 30, 2024
Chef Sam Nunns was harassed by manager Andrew Wilson singing a racy Victoria Wood tune and also making rude references to cucumbers, an employment tribunal heard. Mr Nunns explained that his boss at the posh Lake District hotel 'attempted eye contact' while gesticulating and singing the song. Employment Judge Phil Allen agreed it had the effect 'of violating the claimant's dignity and creating a degrading, humiliating and offensive environment for him'.
Kirsty Young says she ignored 'horrendous' chronic pain condition that halted her BBC career because she had 'a life of privilege' and it felt like a 'penthouse problem'
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March 27, 2024
Julia Samuel, a longtime Princess Diana, Young, 55, said she'beautifully ignored' the pain she suffered because she felt it was'self indulgent' when she had a fulfilling career and a jet-set life to worry about it. (Pictured: Kirsty Young) Inset: Julia Samuel)
How to say no to Christmas party invitations without losing your friends when you'd rather do ANYTHING else but you just can't pluck up the courage or an excuse
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December 12, 2023
An invitation to a Christmas party arrives: is it a cause for joy, or dread?There's good news for those of us who are bored, inebriated, or both over the holiday season because we're too polite to say no to a night out. According to research, which was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology this week, it's fine to decline social invitations. If we decline an invitation, we overestimate the disappointment or resentment felt by the party giver. People are more likely to be understanding as long as they are given a reason, even though that means telling them that we 'just want to stay home and relax.' Six of our top writers discuss how they handled the party season when we'd rather be curled up in front of the telly than in front of the telly...
The best 100 TV shows ever created have been rediscovered (and no surprise)... But does YOUR favorite appear on the list?
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November 3, 2023
The Daily Mail's Weekend magazine has reached yet another magnificent milestone - this month we turn 30! We asked you to share our top ten TV shows so we could compile our definitive list of the 100 Greatest TV Shows voted for by you.
Victoria Wood's Ballad of Barry and Freda was sexually assaulted by the hotel's head chef by performing Victoria Wood's Ballad of Barry and Freda
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July 14, 2023
The hearing was told by Andrew Wilson (left), the manager of Windermere Manor Hotel in the Lake District (inset), serenaded head chef Sam Nunns with the song while making a series of 'disconcerting gestures' as he reiterated the word'Let's do it'. Mr Nunns said that his father, who died at the age of 19th-century, had 'attempted eye contact' when gesticulating and singing the lyrics, which included "I could take half the tenors in a male voice choir."
Cate Blanchett, the enchanted Oscar-winning actress, was filmed in tribute to the cult television series that so enchanted her
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December 2, 2022
JANE FRYER: This Christmas, there wasn't snow, nor Santa, or even talking elves - or even the odd B-list celebrity - it's just Christmas. It isn't even new - it was made in 1994, in Blackpool, on a teen budget. And there isn't anything particularly glamorous, flashy, or action packed about it. In fact, no one appears in Three Salons At The Seaside, a fly-on-the-wall film about day to day life in a string of net-curtained, pink-rolledered hair salons in Blackpool called Tricia's, Vanity Box, and Mary's Way. Rather, this stunning 40-minute film takes us right back to the times of the weekly wash and set. Princess Diana is on the front page of this drier and My Weekly magazines, with big hood driers and My Weekly newspaper.