For all those celebrities who never quite were. They showed a bit of (perhaps forced) promise, then fizzled out as quickly as they appeared.


Anna Walker


To me she seemed like a "new" 90s Anneka Rice. I think I only really remember her from Wish You Were Here, but I felt sure she was going to be big. Then she vanished.



Steve Penk




I'd completely forgotten about this over the top bloke until I saw him the other day on a Lily Savage Blankety Blank on Challenge, from 2000. He practically exploded onto Saturday night TV in the late 90s, from the radio I think, and I'm sure ITV hoped he'd be the next Noel Edmonds or Jeremy Beadle or something. Once again, after a couple of years he was gone, probably pushed out by Ant & Dec.

Retro.

Quote :

In 2016 Penk created and launched "Radio Dead", a Globally unique radio station that only plays artistes who are deceased. If they’re dead, they’re on the playlist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Penk

Quote :

In 2015 Penk launched the Steve Penk Wind-Up Channel on DAB+ in Manchester (England), featuring wind-up/prank calls 24/7.

'We set it up, we looked into ways of operating it and we closed it down. It was inoperable.'

Alice Beer...

Oh yes. Alice Beer was surely destined for Anne Robinson's job, but never quite achieved it.

I was just thinking about Jill Dando. She'd become a new national TV favourite shortly before her death, and would probably still be on TV today as one of the BBC's highest-paid presenters, presenting Question Time, or Strictly or something. She was apparently lined up to present the BBC's Millennium coverage, but didn't quite make it.

EDIT: Oh my, nearly 20 years ago.

Butterfield wrote:

Oh yes. Alice Beer was surely destined for Anne Robinson's job, but never quite achieved it.

Anne Robinson seems to have disappeared, maybe they don't let her into the BBC as her face doesn't match her pass anymore?

Actually, it's quite interesting how these radio stations have changed ownership names etc over the years. All while still playing the same bland Annie Lennox/Adele wallpaper-a-phon snoozefests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Radio_00s

You can understand why they're so terrified of Spotify. Probably.

Bob Mills of Win, Lose Or Draw and In Bed With Me Dinner "fame".





I absolutely hated him at the time but I think he was promoted in the 90s as a sort of alternative to Jonathan Ross but never got there and vanished without trace. I notice he's now on Talk Radio, about twice the size than he used to be.

Just the title of IBWMD annoyed me so much that I hoped everyone connected with it would die.

It was "MeDinner"

It was a play on In Bed With Madonna.

Breaking Learning alert

I knew that.

I also knew that. It was the main thing I hated about it.