Julie Goodyear

I do spoilers. I check the ITV Corrie updates and i also download episodes. I even write an update summary now for the first Monday episode each week for a few mailing lists. I don't do many spoilers on here, though, because i wanted it to be a Canadian timeline blog, mainly a place to keep my Sunday comments or rantings about current to us storylines. Occasionally i branch off and this is one of those times.

I mentioned downloading. I knew that ex-Bet Lynch Gilroy was going to be on a celebrity Mr. and Mrs. game show in the UK. It's one of those shows like we used to have, the Newlyweds where newish married couples have to answer questions on how well they know each other. The celeb version in the UK has them playing for charities. I was really interested to see Julie and her new husband Scott Brand. Julie and Scott have been together for about 12 years but only just tied the knot last year. Their wedding pictures are here on an unofficial Julie Goodyear website. Even though she got married in a white dress with a veil, i actually thought she looked quite nice. I would have expected a 60+ year old woman in a white bridal gown to look ludicrous but she didn't at all though i think the veil might have been a tad much. Still, she did look nice and she certainly looked happy although who knows, she certainly does know how to put it on for the cameras but on the surface, she looked like every happy bride.

Scott is quite a bit younger than her, about 18 or 20 years, i think, and is close to the age of her own son, Gary. Looking at him in a couple of those photos, he looks like he has quite a hang-dog type face and looks awkward in a wide smile. It's like smiling isn't his natural facial expression! Anyway. Back to Mr. and Mrs.

Julie looked really good. She's short. I'm always surprised at how short she is and Scott is tall. She's heavier these days and her face is softening and filling out and aging but having said that, she looks fabulous. She had a much lighter touch with the makeup than we're used to seeing her with, as Bet. But Bet always was over the top. She had a lovely purpley bluey sparkly dress on and it really suited her. Sure, she was "on" for the cameras and for the show but again, not over the top. I actually got the impression she was a bit nervous. She "acted" a bit nervous sometimes trying to guess the answers to the questions but you could almost see behind that, that there was a real "nervous" under it. Maybe i'm seeing things.

My impression of Scott, though... Julie said she wore the pants in the family and i can believe that. He's very understated and quiet. He seems content to let her rule the roost and one thought that went through my head when i watched their interaction was "lap dog". That doesn't sound very nice, i know, and i don't mean it to be nasty really. Maybe it's because he just is so quiet and seems to defer to her all the time. She's so much a dominant personality, very much the Diva in front of the cameras though she is probably lower key in private. But maybe not. You only know the person that they let you see, even in her autobiography recently, you could tell she has a strong personality.

So how well did they know each other? The questions weren't that difficult for the most part. I did have to laugh at one. He was asked what her favourite drink was. He started with Baccardi and Pepsi Max but changed it to a nice cuppatea. Was he worried that it would make her look like a boozer or just that tea is her usual every day drink and the Baccardi is her favourite alcoholic drink? Anyway, she came back and was "stumped" at first because she wasn't sure if it meant a drink for when she's going out somewhere special or just normal. No hints. So she said Baccardi and coke. No? Then she said Baby Cham(pagne) so that was her "going out special" drink. She seemed flummoxed when it was revealed that it was a cup of tea. She answered questions that he later had to guess first and he got all of them correct. Three of them were questions about him so it implies she knows him well or at least knows what he would answer to the same questions. When he had to answer questions that she would later guess, she got two of the four wrong (one was the Baccardi question) so I guess that means he doesn't know her as well as she does him.

Sometimes i felt that the questions were almost something that were pre-determined. She was asked what his favourite piece of leopard print was. She implied he had it on him (underpants was the implication though she didn't say). It turned out to be a small TY stuffed leopard he keeps as a good luck charm in his inside jacket pocket. It just seemed odd that he would have that with him but maybe a 40 something year old man is daft enough to carry that around. I don't know. But it's one of the things that made me think it was a bit of a setup. Maybe the celeb ones are, and they have a list of acceptable questions vetted ahead of time?

Anyway, i skipped all the parts that they weren't on so i can't say how the rest of the show was. I didn't know the other celebs so i didn't bother. I like to see the actors in interviews but things like a game show or cooking show, something more casual, lets you see a different side of their off screen personality.