Being Davina

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Nigel Goodall. Being Davina

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A CRY FOR HELP

DANGEROUS ADDICTIONS

GOD’S GIFT

SNAKES & LADDERS

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

MRS ROBERTSON

A BIGGER PICTURE

MERELY AN ACTRESS

TIME OUT

ONE MORE TIME

REALITY BITES

SEX, LIES & BIG BROTHER

SITTING PRETTY

TO BE CONTINUED

WALK THIS WAY

DAVINA McCALL’S TELEVISION

DAVINA McCALL’S AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

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‘I’m a complete slapper –

I work for any channel that’ll pay me.’

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Such addictions or just generally bad behaviour do seem to haunt celebrities when, at some time or another in their career, their public profile falls from grace. It’s always the ones least likely to tarnish their reputations, too. Some would reason that is why Winona Ryder shoplifted thousands of dollars’ worth of designer clothes and accessories from Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills in December 2001. At the time, the question on everyone’s lips was why would anyone worth $30 million need to steal what she could easily buy. Many were convinced it was Ryder’s cry for help.

But anorexia is a different story. It was, after all, what killed singer Karen Carpenter, who was the first celebrity to die after battling with the disorder for seven years. What is so strange about Karen’s untimely death, however, is that she had no death wish. It was quite the opposite, in fact. She wanted to go on making music and expand her talent into other fields of entertainment throughout her life. If anything, Karen was a traditional showbusiness trouper. And yet anorexia seems to have been her cry for help. The question is, was it just an ugly and deadly equaliser for attention alongside her older brother, Richard, who was treated as the senior by their mother, and without whom Karen thought she would have no career? Or was it the fact that, because Karen never considered herself truly pretty enough to stand on a stage, starving was aimed at correcting her lack of self-esteem.

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