[RadioKnower]

Originally Posted by gregsanison

Cilla Black, I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate that rabbit toothed Tory champagne-drinking-from-a-shoe ugly monster.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004...adcasting.arts

I ask Black about her politics and she says, "I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from I don't know."

I expect it came from the fact that she appeared on stage at a Tory rally during the campaign for the 1992 election. That's a pretty unambiguous endorsement, isn't it?

"I, ah, I didn't know I was. I didn't know I was. I was called to somewhere in Wembley - give me a stage and I'm on there! I was on there, but it was Bobby who prompted me. I said, what the hell do I say up here? But I didn't realise it was being ... until I got on there, and I saw all the cameras. I thought, this is going to be on the 10 o'clock news! I made light of it. I think I said something about fairy stories."