![Where are my latex lovelies? Apr 5 2005]( "Where are my latex lovelies? Apr 5 2005")
Where are my latex lovelies? Apr 5 2005
The Insider, Liverpool Echo
HERE'S a Macca mystery story - just who bought the Paul McCartney Spitting Image puppets?
Roger Law, who with Peter Fluck (try saying that after a few pints of Guinness) created the satirical show Spitting Image, sold off all the puppets after the last TV series back in 1996 for charity.
The sale was a big hit at Sotheby's auction house raising £370,105 but Roger doesn't know who bought what when flogging off the 1,000 puppets.
"We did two version sets of The Beatles - young and old ones. The elder Beatles were much crueler.
"I heard a rumour that Paul bought the older versions of himself but to this day I simply don't know. I'd love to know."
Roger says that the sale of the latex dummies saw Cherie Blair and hubby Tony going for £3,000 (Mrs Thatcher went for £11,224).
Of his grotesque caricatures featured in his book Still Spitting At Sixty out today (Harper Collins), Roger says that he hated Anne Robinson's so called 'sexy wink' but he hopes the puppet did her justice.
Other Scousers lampooned were Jimmy Tarbuck and Cilla Black and TV pundit Alan Hansen also ended up with a latex doppleganger.
But Roger says he does have one major regret about the series.
"We nearly always got it right but sometimes it was hard for our lurid imaginations to keep pace with reality.
"We had Margaret Thatcher in a man's suit ranting, bullying and going slightly mad.
"But we had grey John Major having an affair with some political underling.
"If only we had known with hindsight he was actually bonking Edwina 'Cruella De Vil' Currie - we would have had a field day."
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