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Martine McCutcheon
Seems to be making a bit of a comeback, she has her debut novel "The Mistress" coming out
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mistress-Martine-McCutcheon/dp/0330504487/ref=sr_1_1/275-0769614-6863563?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254862454&sr=8-1
And has taken part in an interesting photoshoot for Breast Cancer awareness
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/09/25/article-0-0695E0D9000005DC-178_468x697.jpg
And has been photographed at "The Pride of Britain Awards"
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/05/article-1218274-06B63B42000005DC-675_196x561.jpg
What do you think? she has went from girlband member to soap star to pop star to stage star to Movie Star to Author? lol will it be a success, I personally hope so I know many here find her unlikable and stuck up but to me she is uber talented and hot.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mistress-Martine-McCutcheon/dp/0330504487/ref=sr_1_1/275-0769614-6863563?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254862454&sr=8-1
And has taken part in an interesting photoshoot for Breast Cancer awareness
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/09/25/article-0-0695E0D9000005DC-178_468x697.jpg
And has been photographed at "The Pride of Britain Awards"
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/05/article-1218274-06B63B42000005DC-675_196x561.jpg
What do you think? she has went from girlband member to soap star to pop star to stage star to Movie Star to Author? lol will it be a success, I personally hope so I know many here find her unlikable and stuck up but to me she is uber talented and hot.
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I think she is, her acting in EastEnders to me was really good and no one can deny the woman has a great voice.
:rolleyes:
Yeah she's trying to bolster her career, but what does she trying to progress to? She's been in a film. Maybe she's trying to stay relevant perhaps.
Autobiographies yeah but a novel ghost written by another and credited for by Martine? highly unlikely.
Another two: Complete Shit
No, completely plausible... do you really think Katona, Geri, Madonna and Jordan write their own books... no. I don't expect any less off Martine.
In most cases these celebs are approached by agents that offer the services of an author that will write a story based on whatever the celeb wants, with a split of the profits... it works both ways.
At university I had a lecturer that was a part time ghost writer, he had ghostwritten for a few prem footballer biogs but also true crime books, historic reference books and novels. At the co-author/pub presses discression he was sometimes not even ever referenced at all as a writer.
That's just the way it is, if you choose to believe this actress wrote a novel so be it, it most assuredly will not be true.
Is she still knocking about with that Jack Johnson bloke
oh that silly moo who declared she would make it in hoolywood then got drunk and insulted people and flew back declaring her love for the UK instead
that silly martine
no thanks
Dont forget it was she who threw up on Mick Hucknall so he had to cut off his famous curly red mop:D
she has her uses then i guess......:p
It's possible to be both.
I always liked Martine when she used to appear on things like Live and Kicking; she always seemed nice. Of course, some people on the "nice and nasty celebs you have met" thread say they've met her and she was horrible and not having met her I can't argue.
I wish her well, all the same.
And that was probably the only time Dawn French ever made me laugh.
I can't bear the woman although she does have one saving grace - she did vomit on Mick Huknall after all.
I wish her well with whatever she does but it does seem that it's all over for her now. I think she'd make a good agent, she knows all about the industry, she could help others now.
I'd go along with that.
I actually liked her back in the Eastenders days - but it's been downhill ever since.
A classic case of an individual with serious delusions of grandeur - Hollywood, the bright lights, a modern day singing, dancing equivalent of Judy Garland - NOT!!!
This latest get-successful-at-any-cost venture is another string to add to her, erm, bow. Forgotten TV star, failed singer, failed movie actress.....and I very much doubt she has written this 'debut novel' without a significant helping hand.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-579714-never-mind-posh-she-cant-do-cockney.do;jsessionid=0157DEB6B6C0DDC1CDDF16DF9146683B
Martine McCutcheon, an actress of sorts, went to scow in 'Ackney (where hurricanes hardly ever happen) and at the ige of ite determined that to play Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady must be her life's ambishun. In Doolittle she says all - the Doo as multi-syllabled as a Korean car manufacturer, the double t of little elided as a double glottal stop, and in spite of all her years at the Italia Conti School - which used to be the guarantee of metamorphosed elocution - her speech remains utterly unreconstructed and fits her only for minor roles in EastEnders and The Bill.
Why, then, did the panjandrums of the National Theatre imagine that under their tutelage, embodied in Bernard Shaw's Professor Higgins, the real Martine could summon wit enough to be effectively transformed into the fictional Eliza reincarnate as a lady?
She has, it must be said, no ear for the role that translates her from EastEnders to Absolutely Fabulous. Forced to mimic the exaggerated caterwauling established as iconic by Julie Andrews and Audrey Hepburn, she is scarcely intelligible and wholly unconvincing even as a cockney - a remarkable achievement - nor does she comfortably assume in tongue or body language the airs and graces of gentility.
Within five minutes it is evident that the fault lies mainly with the voice, a meagre little instrument incapable of volume, done serious disservice by random amplification that would disgrace a village hall. High in pitch and shrill in timbre, her utterance is painful to the ear. At her best this actress is inaudible, at her worst her speech is alternately and gracelessly whining, vituperative and rancorous, her song so sour that she might be Florence Foster Jenkins attempting the most rancid notes of Callas at the tail end of her career, heard through the customer announcement system of London Underground.
This is a woman who, as a cockney, sings a song of which the refrain is something about a wooden tit (she has a birdcage); as a lady she trills that she could have darned all night, but with not an old sock to be seen. Disappointed and resentful at the end, she abandons the bogus mannerisms of the Ada Unsworth School of Elocution - "How now, brown cow?" and all that - and delivers her last diatribe with the soft Welsh delivery of Merthyr Tydfil.
The audience gave her a standing ovation, but then the men were balding and greybeard drab, the women Linda Snell and the Vicar of Dibley clad in Marks and Spencer fashion pink, deaf and blind to Miss McCutcheon's blatant inadequacies, all instead reliving Audrey Hepburn's triumph of 1964 with the voice of Marni Nixon. Dennis Waterman is genuine and wonderful as Eliza's father, and Bernard Shaw seems as sharp and shrewd and wry as a century ago, but no matter how well played the other roles, the energetic, even thrilling, support of minor players, My Fair Lady stands or falls on its Eliza. In Miss McCutcheon, this production suffers a mortal self-inflicted wound.