I recently came across Amanda De Cadenet's Instagram account. Talk about a real blast from the past! I thought she'd fallen off the face of the earth! I don't know if our friends outside of the UK will know who she is but back in the nineties she used to be a TV presenter as well as a tabloid darling and she eventually went on to marry Duran Duran's John Taylor. I hate her! LOL - Only joking!
I was astounded by her accent though. When she presented The Word she sounded very aristocratic. Now she's very Valley girl! It's clear she's been in America all this time. I remember she and John went to live there shortly after they got married.
It brought back loads of memories of watching The Word when I were in my twenties. It were a late night music show in the nineties that were on on a Friday night. It were quite edgy and in your face and the presenters were far from shy and retiring! Apart from Amanda there were Dani Behr, Mark Lamarr and my fellow Mancunian Terry Christian. I don't think there's anything like it on the telly now.
Anyone else a fan of The Word?
I actually have a video with an interview that Amanda De Cadnet did with New Kids On The Block. If you watched The Word and you saw this interview then you'd know that it didn't go very well for Amanda. She clearly didn't think the New Kids were very cool despite them being the biggest pop band on the planet at the time. She had a few digs at them until Donnie pretty much told her that she sucked as an interviewer. He was right! And as every blockhead knows it served her right. Don't know what happened to her after she married John from Duran Duran and went off to America. In fact a lot of the presenters seemed to fade away after the show ended.