Colour Me Good
‘ITS SO SAD BUT NOW MY BABY GIRL COMES FIRST, screams the front cover of OK!. I TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT MY DRINK PROBLEM.
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That sure is a lot of shouty capital letters. Indeed, ITS hard to KNOW when to stop SHOUTING!
And do not doubt that there is a lot to shout about, because this is the return weve all been waiting for. This is the week when Jessie Wallace emerges from the gloom like a turbo-charged satsuma and gives us the juice on her life.
We all know that Jessie has had a tough time in recent weeks. For one thing, shes not been in OK!; for another, she failed to win the title of sexiest woman in soap; and lastly, Dave Morgan, her now ex-fiance and father of the aforesaid BABY GIRL, sold a sordid story to a newspaper.
But whatever the trauma within, Jessies putting on a brave face. And just like all her other faces were so used to seeing, this ones as orange and beaming as the very sun.
Having already heard how her daughter, Tallulah Lilac, an angel, is her first priority, we soon after learn that Jessie is not going to get into a slanging match.
We who have seen her performances to date, wonder why not. If there is one thing Jessie is good at it is slanging, and depriving us of it is cruel and a failure to play to her strengths.
But OK! still wants to know how and why Jessie split with dastardly Dave. I will not discuss my relationship with him, says Jessie. And neither will she discuss it with us. Its private.
She is though willing to share the symptoms of said break up with the wider world, and say that her really close friends have been helping her through the trauma.
These mates might even have shared a glass of wine of two with her. But Jessie wants it on the record that she is not an alcoholic. Yes, says she, I will have a drink when I get home from work who doesnt.
This is not an invitation to answer a non-alcoholic or a member of the Taliban – it is a rhetorical question.
A proper question and a darn fine one is: In the past, did you always see yourself becoming a mum at some point?
Jessie answers: No, never. She then says, I love being a mum. And to the question, How is motherhood going, Jessie says, I love being a mum.
Such is the level of repetition, that we can only concur with the popular impression that Jessies life is like a soap opera if you miss it the first time round, you can catch the repeats later…’
Posted: 19th, May 2005 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink