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Sanfran Clothing Mr Blobby Homage Top Funny UK Tribute Gift for TV 90's Icon Legend Noel T-Shirt

Sanfran Clothing Mr Blobby Homage Top Funny UK Tribute Gift for TV 90's Icon Legend Noel T-Shirt

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Pascoe says he’s not surprised Edmonds has retired to New Zealand “after everything he’s been through”, referring to Unique Television falling victim to huge bank fraud in 2017. “Obviously, that impacted our relationship, although I did hear from him the other night.” Has Blobby been to visit Edmonds in New Zealand?” “You realise Mr Blobby is like Father Christmas or the tooth fairy, and not real?” Whatever is he talking about? Stowe helped sell ’Allo ’Allo!’s Fallen Madonna after a couple who bought it at a school charity auction in the 90s decided it was time to let it go. “It sold to a gentleman who lives in France, very close to where the series was set,” Stowe says. “He collects artwork and he’s got it on his wall alongside some of the world’s most famous artists. There’s genuine pieces of art worth hundreds of thousands of pounds and right in the middle is this prop from a BBC sitcom.” We know they produce eggs and we think they guard their nests,” says Kerryn. “We now know they’re an ambush predator.” Still, Killerby played Mr Blobby for around 20 years. With him in the suit, Blobby’s role expanded way beyond “Gotchas”. “You could do anything with him,” says Leggo. One of the wildest moments he remembers was when they armed Blobby with a catapult. “It was like an old medieval weapon of war, and he would fire sponge cakes into the audience,” he says. “They loved it! They wanted to sit in the seats where they’d get zonked by Blobby with cream and jam cake.” This data deficiency makes it difficult to establish the conservation status of blobfish, too. People often assume them to be endangered – an unsubstantiated claim perhaps driven by a satirical ‘Save the Blobfish’ advertising challenge on The Gruen Transfer in 2010 – but the truth is we just don’t know.

But there’s a reason I haven’t stood him up. This creature – a blobfish dredged up from kilometre-deep waters off the north-west coast of New Zealand – is perhaps the world’s most famous fish specimen. No one on the tube seems to understand the motto: “If you see something unusual, report it to staff …” But, after squishing through the barriers at Piccadilly Circus, I’m a bona fide celebrity. Buses toot, tourists pose, small children look terrified and motorists yell: “Blobby!” out of their windows.At least there’s some good news. When Blobby appeared in panto in Peter Pan in Milton Keynes in 2021 (played by a variety of actors, but not Killerby), Unique made two new costumes, which Pascoe confirms they still own, along with a “battered, old” original Blobby. Denson, unfortunately, won’t be playing Mr Blobby in the panto. Instead, he’ll be running a “Blobby school” with some of the cast. “On at least one performance, Mr Blobby will be played by me, because I’m not turning that opportunity down,” says Gordon-Wilson.

It's hard to overstate the success of Noel’s House Party. At the time, Saturday night TV was a big deal. People would stay in to watch the show. As Leggo says, it was “appointment-to-view television”. At its peak, it drew in 15 million viewers. Alan Yentob, BBC One controller at the time, described it as “the most important show on the BBC”.

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I can’t remember what triggered it at all,” Balcombe says of his 25-year hobby. “Basically, I had some money to spend, and nostalgia comes into this hugely.” Balcombe never hid behind his sofa when watching Doctor Who, but remembers cuddling up with his mum and dad when the Daleks were on screen.



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