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Old 09-04-2009, 17:05
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Has she been fired??

Sir Alan use to ask Francis to send the teams in; he doesn't seem to know the name of the new girl on the switch.
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Old 09-04-2009, 17:10
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I think her mummified corpse is in a cupboard with boxes of unsold email phones.
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Old 09-04-2009, 17:14
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Francis is the name of Siralun's real secretary - an elderly lady from Essex who has been with him many years (and who may now be retired). They kept the name for continuity reasons.

The "secretary" is one of the production secretaries; I did know her name; all I can remember is she apparently smokes roll-ups.

JJ ( whose got a head full of s....t)
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Old 09-04-2009, 18:16
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Im sure she was there in week 1..
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Old 09-04-2009, 19:38
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Frances used to be played by a girl from Telford called Mandy because the real Frances was considered to be too old and frumpy for TV. I've just noticed the back of a blonde head this series.
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Old 10-04-2009, 15:41
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Heres a whole article on her, revealing who she really is ..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...secretary.html

Theres also a pic of the real Fraces lol
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Old 10-04-2009, 16:12
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If the real Margaret is OK for TV, why not the real Frances?
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Old 10-04-2009, 16:24
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I think people are forgetting the original receptionist in series 1 and 2 was called "Jenny", not Francis.
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Old 10-04-2009, 22:28
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If the real Margaret is OK for TV, why not the real Frances?
Maybe she didn't want to be on TV?
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Old 10-04-2009, 23:34
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I think people are forgetting the original receptionist in series 1 and 2 was called "Jenny", not Francis.
Nope, i have been watching the rerun of series 1 on Dave at 2AM and its Frances.
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Old 11-04-2009, 00:08
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Nope, i have been watching the rerun of series 1 on Dave at 2AM and its Frances.
Well I saw her referred to as Jenny.
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Old 15-04-2009, 20:34
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Nope when the candidates walk in they all say "hi Frances", even Sugar says "Frances send them in".

Its on again at 1:30 AM tonight on Dave.
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Old 15-04-2009, 20:50
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He definitely has called her Jenny at least once.

Regardless of the name, it's not the same woman who sits there in every series. "Frances" from series 3 and 4 is not the same person as the secretary in series 1, for example.
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Old 15-04-2009, 22:16
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I have it on good authority that Frances is The Stig
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Old 15-04-2009, 22:35
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That's the credit crunch biting
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Old 16-04-2009, 14:27
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He definitely has called her Jenny at least once.

Regardless of the name, it's not the same woman who sits there in every series. "Frances" from series 3 and 4 is not the same person as the secretary in series 1, for example.
Yes but series 1 she has been called Frances all the way through, Jenny maybe her real name, but she has been referred to Frances since the first show.
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