But very attractive nuns, whereas HG usually tried far too hard and just looked silly.

I had noticed that in the biographies section that there are places for HG with many of the dancers included. I had set myself the task of finding photos for the thumbnails on the front page of this HG biographies section so taht Panfan would not have the trouble of doing it. The obvious way seemed to be to take the better quality video from OFTD and You Tube and do some screen captures. But as I don't have a clue who half the hot gossip dancers are it seemed best to post them here for identification. Before I start chopping them down to 250x250 for the thumbnails.

Since a fair number of the dancers also appeared in Dee Dee's Pan's People amongst other troops, it might be of interest to some people the cv of some of these dancers. But I recognise the fact that HG are not to everbodies taste and will refrain from further posts in this section.

Thanks for the encouragement Panfan, but due to the ropey quality of most of the HG videos that are about, getting good screen shots is fairly difficult. There is not likely to be too many more.

Alright now, seemed to be about the best quality of the ITV ones. Watching it, I thought it would provide more quality shots. But HG dancers do move quite fast, so freezing the frame reveals either a blur or they are not looking into the camera. I have been inching through the whole video picking out the sharp frames, cropping then resizing to see if an acceptable image is produced at the end.

The later BBC material is available at higher quality, but then I only recognise Floid and I think this outside the scope of most of the personnel crossover.

Oh, and that is Perri Lister in pic 5

Dave

Hi Panfan,

I came across this when I was doing the list for the "Getting started guide" so thought it should be the place to point the HG traffic to as it already existed and did not put you to the trouble of setting up a dedicated sub forum straight away. The same is also true for some of the other catagories I hijacked. So in the short term it might be easier just to make the getting started list a bit more excessable rather sorting out all the sub forums.

Only a suggestion though as you know the structure that you are aiming at better than anyone.

Simon.    

The picture of Kenny Everett with Henry McGee is not Hot Gossip they are Hills Angels who did a copy of Hot Gossip one time on Benny Hill Show both being at Thames Kenny must have popped in for this photo.

Usually I pick Roy out relatively easily, like in Floyd's theme a week later or "If my friends could see me now" the following week. However in the screen shot above, I will have to take your word for it. While Mark is so easily identifiable. But it is nice to know who the other two dancers are, I will enter their names in the routines list once it goes up.

Incidently do you know if the correct version of Roy's surname is Gayle? as I have also seen it written as Gale? 

Hi 80s Dancer,

I am not disputing what you say about Lee being in the original line up. But I have been through the whole of the Kenny Everett season 1 routines making screen shots to ID all the dancers and I found Floid in episodes 2-8/ Lee replaces Floid in a season 1 special Ease on down the road routine, broadcast on New Years day 1979. I posted some of the screenshots of floid from this period on his bio here:http://www.panspeople.com/?q=node/293. The only routine Dave and I were not sure about when Identifying Floid was on Walk on the Wild Side looking mean and moody wearing motorcycle leathers and shades (sorry about the blurry screenshot, it was the best I could do).

Simon.

Another ID question that Dave and I were struggling with was this time in the routine for the Rolling Stones Honky Tonk Woman broadcast in episode 5 of the 1st seaon of the Kenny Everett show on 31.07.1978. The routine starts and finishes with Mark Tyme and Dominique Wood? on the top of scafolding. The top screen shot is at the end of the routine and shows a fairly clear shot of Dominique with the usual wavy mousey hair.

The middle screen shot is from the start of the routine, same outfit hair looks different fuller, still Dominique?

The bottom screen shot is from the middle of the routine after Mark Tyme has pulled the dancer off the scafolding by the legs. Still the same outfit darker straight hair clearly in two bunches. Is this still Dominique with a wig on? Or another dancer?

If they are all dominique, it must mean the routine was shot in several takes and edited together afterwards, your thoughts on this would be interesting.

Simon.

Thanks 80s Dancer,

Almost there now with season one, just a couple more questions left. First of all, the two screen captures below, again from Honky Tonk Woman. They are quite blurry, but I think they are Lorraine Whitmarsh, am I right?

Then the final question, in the first season there was a best of episode broadcast on 6th September 1978. There is no listing for what was on this episode on the website that I use http://muuta.net/KennyEverett/Thames.html, do you know if there was a HG routine on this episode. If so was it a repeat or something new?

I have got Hot Child in the City down as being season 2 episode 2 but maybe it was on the best of episode in season one that I just mentioned? I had not noticed Lyndsey's split outfit before, but then when I was looking for it I only just spotted it as the quality is not great (19 MB file). Have you found a bit quality video of this one?

At first, I thought that Dominique was much daring than the rest of the dancers. She often has one leg flip over her head leaving not much to the imagination. It was a while before I realised that she did these moves because she could and possibly the other dancers were not able.

I have started working on ID'ing the dancers on season two, once I have got further with that task. I will post any screen shots that I am having problems with. But I think that it will be at least a week or two.

Anyway thanks for the help in season one.

Maybe you would like to tell us how you got to know so much about Hot Gossip. Have you been following them for a long time?

Simon.

Seeing you online suddenly reminded me I had neglected to thank you for this latest confimation.

Simon.

Hey! The original girls, by that I mean before David Mallet hired Hot Gossip for the Kenny Shows were Wanda Rockiki, Lavinia Lang, Chrissy Wickham, Belinda ?, Judey Ford and Libby Rose. None of that line up made it on to the show, although Lavinia (and Jane and Libby Roberts from Love Machine danced in the first show (Supernature) mentioned above as some new girls were still working with other groups for the BBC. The original Kenny girls were Dominique, Lyndsey Ward, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Perri Lister, Carol Fletcher, Sarah Brightman and Donna. X

Yes, that's Debbie Ash and Jane Newman from No1 Song. She is also in the pic at the top of this feed in the red dress with Donna Laura Alison Kim Richard Roy & Floid

Hi Baby Bear,

welcome to pp.com, always nice to see another HG fan here. I think we are kind of out numbered. One member the other day said that he had always found them nasty and brutish. Be we know better don't we.

I might start a poll to find out exactly what proportion of people think what about HG.

If you are speaking to Mark Tyme though, you can point him in the direction of PP.com, we are sure to make him feel welcome.

Simon.

She is the one in the baby doll.  It's not Debbie Ash though because it's too early for her.