Madeleine McCann: EastEnders Reacts, Evil GP And Relocated
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
The newspapers’ hunt for Madeleine McCann has passed. The missing child now serves as a point of reference for anyone looking to add realism to a work of fiction:
PEOPLE: “I’m having a BLAST in EastEnders - EXCLUSIVE As evil GP Mad May is back to terrorise Walford actress Amanda Drew lifts lid on her return”
Eastenders’ “Mad May” is one of the most sinister psychos to grace Walford. The evil GP vanished last year after trying to steal her love rival’s baby.
A female doctor, like Kate McCann?
In an exclusive chat with The People, Amanda, 38, talks about being single, her friendship with Catherine Tate and why she was relieved when scriptwriters changed her storylines at the time Madeleine McCann went missing.
Firth things first:
Q When you left last year your storylines were rewritten because it was too similar to the Madeleine McCann disappearance.
How did you feel about it?
A As soon as Madeleine went missing I thought “no”. I was very worried and really relieved when they changed it. It was too raw a topic to be dealing with on a soap.
Because the typical soap watcher cannot differentiate between fact and a fiction?
In response to that script change Anorak was invited on the BBC’s Jeremy Vine show. The BBC produces EastEnders but no-one from the show arrived to comment on the decision to alter the script and then tell the world about it.
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Relocated: chilling, vivid and unnervingly topical - Charles Spencer is unnerved but impressed by Relocated at the Royal Court”
The theatre’s knack of keeping its finger on the pulse of our troubled times is displayed yet again with Relocated, a deeply disconcerting new play by Anthony Neilson. I saw it on Friday night and it’s been nagging away in my head all weekend, like a half-remembered nightmare that taints your waking hours… This unsettling piece taps into a great fear of the age -…
Global warming? Terrorism? Being fat? Appearing on the Jeremy Kyle show?
…the abduction and abuse of children.
Indeed, ’tis every parents worst nightmare. The papers tell us so. But this play, isn’t it a game of Tabloid Bingo!
The play has clearly been inspired by the recently discovered activities of Herr Fritzl in that terrible basement in Austria, in which he fathered children on his own daughter and kept them in captivity.
But you also catch echoes of the Soham murders and Maxine Carr’s complicity with Ian Huntley, and of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
At the finale Shannon Matthews comes out dressed in a duvet cover and singing Climb Every Mountain in Portuguese…
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June 17th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Is it true that following their jaunts round Europe, the Mccanns are to guest star in Nanny 911 as pioneers of good child care? That was a joke (I think).
M and A
Strange that Norland don’t ask them to advertise….
June 17th, 2008 at 8:50 am
June 17th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Brandon!!!!
I haven’t eaten blue smarties for years…
June 17th, 2008 at 8:27 am
the barrier kind!
June 17th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Brandon
Not on top form this morning…
what sponge???
June 17th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Nosey
find your sponge!
June 17th, 2008 at 7:48 am
morning brandon
ouch pass the sun glasses please.
June 17th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Hopefully there will another leak today as they go up the escalators, and clarence will do some spinning
God I miss him!
June 17th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Garth ….. LOL. My kids should have been eaten at birth. Sending them to a ‘good’ school has given them airs and graces that make me cringe.
If they have to put crockery in the dish-washer they look at me like I have asked them to crawl down a mile of sewers.
My job keeps me out of the home so that I don’t go to prison for GBH! lol
June 17th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Yes enjoy your day coco, however remember, Im always here as a hard shoulder should the day become a little too stressy.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Off to work now. Have a fab day.
Ask your MP to question Gordie Brune why there are some rules for poor inadequate people and different ones for wealthier more erudite types regasrding child-care.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:36 am
Well you could always get the kids to look after the house, pets and do the dry-cleaning! Would save you a few bob!
June 17th, 2008 at 6:31 am
Garth!!! I am worth a chapter at least! Of course I would give him fresh leads. Like scrolling through Anorak to see all our theories for a start.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:30 am
Every day! But this is the only one where I can earn enough to pay for my petrol, ciggies and people to look after the house and kids and pets and have dry-cleaning in the wardrobes.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:25 am
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June 17th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Early flight and no access to pc all day so I will miss any TV coverage until I you-tube it later.
If nothing happens - will you please make something up for me?
I am having nightmares about people who lose children. being allowed to fuck about in Strasbourg telling every other fucker what to do so that they don’t lose children.
The World is sadly on it’s head.
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Have you ever thought about changing jobs?
June 17th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Hmm……….maybe a puffa fish then.
Anyway coco, serious stuff aside, i reckon if you were to ask him out for a date he just might take you up on your offer.
You might even get a mention in his book?
June 17th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Early flight and no access to pc all day so I will miss any TV coverage until I you-tube it later.
If nothing happens - will you please make something up for me?
I am having nightmares about people who lose children. being allowed to fuck about in Strasbourg telling every other fucker what to do so that they don’t lose children.
The World is sadly on it’s head.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Garth! If Amaral was single I would ask him out on a date.
He is nothing like a sardine!
June 17th, 2008 at 6:15 am
June 17th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Do you think that a big massive amphibious sardine came into PDL one night and wolfed M down with a glass of port?
Because that’s what I think is a possibility.
Is your theory similar to mine - or do you have a more plausible one?
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Cocopops
In all fairness to you i think the PJ might now be looking into your theory of a big massive amphibious sardine abduction.
It just baffles me how long Amaral thinks he can get away with it however.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Fry up?
The breakfast of champions!
June 17th, 2008 at 6:09 am
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coco Says:
June 17th, 2008 at 4:24 am
This should be a national fucking outrage and we are being treated like mushrooms!
Fed on sh*t and kept in the dark!
Shame!
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You said it!
Fry up anyone?
June 17th, 2008 at 6:08 am
“Night of the Tutu’s”
A Pieter Van Dykstra production.
Soon to be the Major Motion Picture Blockbuster of the summer.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:08 am
RASPUTIN!!!!! You are dead - and so is your Russian Queen!
There was a Revolution! I don’t want ghosts writing on here it gives me the creeps.
Release your Spirit and go to the Other Side - or hang about for permission to enter Heaven or what-ever but stop writing silly declamatory sh*ite.
If you ask Jehovah nicely, He might go and find a Russian Queen for you to shag in a spiritual way.
You sound like a proper Knob-Head on here!
What may seem like profound pearls of Biblical wisdom to you whilst writing - just lends up looking like tripe written down.
Do you never read what you write and feel like a Knob-Head afterwards?
All your prophetic crap spoils the thread for me because I don’t know if you are a complete arse-hole talking bollocks or a genuinely disturbed person who was kept in a dark dungeon and fed on sh*t like a mushroom. Should we on Anorak be blaming your parents for your nonsense? Or you?
If it is your parents fault then I understand why you have such faith in the Clan parents for leaving their children.
I can’t find one interesting comment you have made.
Do you think that a big massive amphibious sardine came into PDL one night and wolfed M down with a glass of port?
Because that’s what I think is a possibility.
Is your theory similar to mine - or do you have a more plausible one?
June 17th, 2008 at 4:24 am
What the f*cking hell is going on behind the scenes?????
Why no great mention about the Saints in Strasbourg??????????
I found a tiny two-liner on UK ITV teletext on the World page for France saying they were off to Strasbourg and f*ck all on the ordinary text yesterday morning!
Why have the British media not done any tough investigative or gentle persuasive items on the Clan and Co.?
Why not??????
Are we watching a Pinochet-type thingy where we think - ‘Poor old bastard - he’s too sick to stand trial’? ‘Fuck all the people he fucked over - and their families - and let him live the rest of his life in peace.’
This should be a national fucking outrage and we are being treated like mushrooms!
Fed on sh*t and kept in the dark!
Shame!
June 17th, 2008 at 1:13 am
bernodn.. ist at clenres.. blody dincun…
xx
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you’re on a roll nosey!
-meercat
June 17th, 2008 at 1:13 am
nosey
theres an r in barf
night
be gentle!
June 17th, 2008 at 1:13 am
nihgt ierene
nigte brendon
swet dreems…
June 17th, 2008 at 1:12 am
are you wearing your uniform?
June 17th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Goodnight all.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:11 am
He jsut got bcak Bardnon
Heis avnig a baff…
nit nie hic …
June 17th, 2008 at 1:11 am
wake up! dont let them find you like that !!!!