Fanny Cradock August 1986

Wogan was a British television chat show that was broadcast on BBC1 from 1982 until 1992, presented by Terry Wogan.

[@jamesdooling4139]

Poor Fanny, she had years and years of spunk left in her when she fell from grace. These days, she'd have told the world to piss off and started a website.

[@MrDavey2010]

James Dooling You’re right. She’d have become more popular nowadays rather than disappearing.

[@victorsilvester78]

Spot on James.

[@wcfields547]

She was an absolutely shite cook as well though

[@jamescrowther1234]

Why did she fall from grace?

[@julianmeek2156]

@@jamescrowther1234 There was an incident involving a Devonian woman, Gwen Troake, who in 1976 won a competition to have her menu featured at a high profile banquet. The programme involved was Esther Ranzen's THE BIG TIME and another aspect of the prize was for the winner to meet Fanny Cradock and discuss the menu. Cradock behaved badly and reduced Mrs Troake to nothing. It can be found on KZbin - try keying in "Gwen Troake Incident". What made it worse was that Mrs Troake died soon afterwards, but at the time the fuss - which still divides opinion today - was centred in part upon on her treatment of Mrs Troake but also upon her apparent or implied dismissal of English cooking. Watching the clip now I would say all went well until FC reacted to the idea of serving a seafood cocktail before duck with bramble jelly. That is where the problems start. My own view is that FC probably had a point in raising her eyebrows at the seafood cocktail, duckling with a lemon jelly-and-cornstarch fortified bramble sauce and coffee cream dessert with rum but the problem arose in her theatrical facial expressions, her dismissal of Cornish pasties with a mock-vomit and her erroneous claim that the Yorkshire pudding came originally from Burgundy. The publc reacted en masse, and the BBC terminated Fanny Cradock’s contract. She did occasionally appear as a guest on programmes thereafter, but it was very much in the “guest slot” capacity and as can be seen here, her health was clearly not the best by this time.

[@nintendy]

Absolutely WONDERFUL! Loved and ADORED Fanny Cradock - and Dame Barbara Cartland too! If only this horrible world had such colourful, talented and entertaining characters now... Makes me think what a dull old place this world is... Thanks for Posting.

[@nintendy]

BLTKellys LOL - how melodramatic... Oh dear me - we have got a chip o the old shoulder... :-)

[@nintendy]

BLTKellys You shouldn't get in such a tiz about it - life's too short as it is. Get on with living instead of wasting your life hating others. :-)

[@nintendy]

+BLTKellys I think you take her too 'literal', I mean she criticises people sure - but she also criticises herself. Listen carefully, and see what she says about Barbara Cartland who was a friend of hers. She said she was ‘over-done’ - she then adds ‘like me’. The real people to be wary of, are those who criticise others - but never themselves. These are self-righteous. People like Fanny and Barbara were certainly not that. They simply realised that we all have flaws and pointed them out others - just like people as yourself are eager to point out theirs! So you see, we're all the same really! :-)

[@nintendy]

BLTKellys To be honest, if I were you, I’d spend more of my time and concern with the hypocritical world we live in today in the people around us; the constant outpouring of grief for total strangers in the form of tears and the laying of flowers at tragic events for people they don’t even know... There wouldn’t be anything wrong with that, but for the fact these same people wouldn’t even look in on a neighbour in case they had to do something to help... I remember hearing once of two women who cried and went to the funeral of an elderly man who’d been found dead in the flat above - yet in the three weeks prior, despite the milk building up on his step and admitting to thinking it strange, and not having seen him, they completely ignored it... He’d been dead for those three weeks - they hadn’t cared... Lovely people...

[@stephenguppy8886]

To be fair to the woman, every syllable she uttered on The Big Time when she destroyed the amateur cook Gwen Troake, was true. Her menu was unbalanced and incredibly over-rich. Yet thanks to Rantzen and her lot, Cradock was sacked and hardly ever worked again, which is rich coming from Rantzen who not only got Bernard Braden sacked from his show by having an affair with the producer, Desmond Wilcox, and ended up with a programme called That's Life, God help us, but who also founded Childline which was designed to protect certain BBC stars more than the children. Cradock's food was incredibly ott and hideous for the most part but I'd sooner see her "Cooks For Christmas" series any day than Delia being "daring" by using one whole pot of cream in one recipe or Nigella giving us an R-rated performance massaging a leg of lamb.

[@dee4174]

You are spot on there.

[@thetartantopiary]

I AGREE!@@dee4174

[@rodkirkbride2230]

​@@dee4174yep!

[@headron66]

She belittled the very people that made her and came up short. Was it unforgivable? Nope, was she right? Yes! was her delivery good? Absolutely not!

[@linzieloo1]

Rantzen is vile she knew and supported saville. How she ever got on tv never know. Read Rantzen has lung cancer and now of course as she has a interest in herself is she is trying to get assisted suicide allowed in this country she is nothing more than a piece of 💩

[@garyfenlon5769]

Fanny looks well here and her food looks splendid .

[@ralphiejacuzzi]

She looks like Edina Monsoon on AbFab when they go into the future. She looks like the elderly version of Edina Monsoon!!!

[@unaadair2137]

My family loved her.

[@JBiggsofWSNC]

"It's a load of muck!"

[@kaysi6605]

how brilliant would a cooking co.petition between her and Gordon Ramsay be?

[@showjumper8384]

kay si fanny would leave Ramsay shaking in his boots. She's fabulous

[@ianrobert6239]

wonderful woman

[@paullondon6625]

Has anyone got the great interview that Wogan did with the country music legend Kenny Rogers in the 1980s? Though he is American Rogers understood the cheeky humour and clearly enjoyed Wogan's jokes at his expense, even going on to make some great gags about himself. That was my favourite interview Wogan ever did, used to have it on video, but lost the tape about ten years ago.

[@victorsilvester78]

Genius.

[@arminehanjargholi]

😂🤣💫

[@MrDavey2010]

Fanny & Johnny weren’t actually married despite appearances.

[@AmandaEm7]

They were

[@infectedvoice5162]

@@AmandaEm7 No they weren't, one of her earlier husbands always refused to give her a divorce so she couldn't marry again, she changed her last name to Craddock by deed poll.

[@dickiea8048]

@@infectedvoice5162 She actually did. A bigamist marriage.

[@ljt3084]

If you look at Major johnny craddocks wiki page it says spouse. 1977- Void. Instead of -1987 when he died. Because they were never actually married. She was 'married' four times. Only 3 in reality. Her previous husband refused to grant a divorce probably to spite the evil bint so she changed her name by deed poll. She had already gone through bigamy after her second marriage. She was 20 years old in the great depression. Her family lost everything by 1932 and it really toughened her up but left her sour as old vinegar.

[@gruberstein]

Not hard to believe she was addicted to pills, uppers and downers. On the med rollercoaster.

[@OlafProt]

Vile woman. Belongs in the past.

[@linzieloo1]

Like you

[@DannyM.D.N.A]

Not a line on her face .... what’s her secret

[@MegaStig25]

Mashed swede

[@RichardTheBigBunny]

@@MegaStig25 - Ha! You beat me to it.

[@MrDavey2010]

Embalming fluid!

[@AmandaEm7]

Face-lift

[@lnteIIigence]

The secret's in the booklet!

[@Karlito77751]

She was a horror,bully,liar,over the top 👩‍🍳! I allegedly said lookin at my lawyer?

[@fabrizio483]

Can you imagine someone, anyone, saying "If you can't cook, you're a rotten wife" on today's television? Bravo, Fanny.

[@VivaColoratura]

Funny, very intelligent and well spoken. And she suffers no fools. That’s why people are scared of her. I think she’s amazing.

[@LaurenceReeves]

I think she's brilliant, a shame she was fired. Don't get many people like that now.

[@Mandeley100]

She was a splendid individual and had something lacking in so many tv cooks today. Personality!! I met her and Johnny once and she really could not have been nicer. I know her style of cooking has dated terribly but so has that of every tv cook over time. Fashions change but she was the best in her heyday of the '50's and '60's.

[@glamdolly30]

I do envy you having met her, glad to hear she was sweet to you I couldn't bear it if she had been an old trout! I love these eccentric British ladies who are not afraid to speak their minds - sadly they are literally a dying breed.

[@kevincassidy1983]

Bullshit. Personality is not missing on so many chefs. She was a crap, rude, snobby wretxh of a person and cook

[@kayvancooten4657]

@@glamdolly30 Thank goodness!

[@ajjy1110]

She was a vile bullying piece of shit who got sacked for being so

[@pegbutwin7189]

Even Julia Child held Fanny in high regard!

[@EphemeralProductions]

whoa! that says a LOT then!

[@staffie1uk]

She's right about convenience food

[@Streetwise8]

Wogan was a terrific interviewer, casual and very funny. Fanny was a tremendous guest, such talent and manner. Celebrities nowadays are so scared of offending, upsetting, enraging the Twitteratti, that they never say anything worth listening to or sharing....

[@deniseherud]

I adore her😂 She was a riot! And she really does have useful cooking tips…I’ve learned a lot from watching her old videos. Maybe the presentation wasn’t tv perfection, but she knew how to fry chips and make perfect omelettes and all the things that make cooking less horrible. Love that she just says what she thinks and doesn’t care 😂

[@kaysi6605]

how brilliant would a cooking co.petition between her and Gordon Ramsay be?

[@glamdolly30]

Brilliant? It would be miraculous - she's been dead for more than 20 years!

[@kaysi6605]

I know. That is why I was using my imagination

[@glamdolly30]

Sorry, I was being facetious! I love the old trout, she'd wipe the floor with today's TV chefs. Gordon, Jamie, Ainsley and the rest pretend to be extroverts with larger than life personalities but Fanny didn't have to fake anything she was the real deal!

[@showjumper8384]

Fanny would leave Ramsay begging for mercy...she had style and class and breeding !!!

[@653j521]

show jumper Style, class, and breeding? Interesting point of view....

[@morgansifer]

Barbara? Splendid woman. Bit overdone. I burst out laughing at that 😂

[@ashcross]

There have been many celebrities, but not many personalities: I think she was almost as pure personality as someone can be.

[@jamesdelatour2266]

“Because it’s not not nice to duchess of Windsor and I had to wait till she was dead” 🤣😂

[@orion8835]

Awsome. On the matter of convenience foods " it's a load of muck" , "If you can't cook you're a rotten wife!" Love it.. and so true!

[@Karlito77751]

She was a horror,bully,liar,over the top cook ! That’s allegedly coming from me?

[@psychosoma5049]

As a gay man this is the only fanny I love to see

[@Zoe-dr5ps]

Lol that comment gave me a laugh 😂😂😂😂

[@Puppy-lt5ur]

Wogan had the perfect opportunity when he told Fanny she can upset people by reminding her of how awful she was on The Big Time in 1976 but he bottled it. It would also have been a good idea to ask her what she thought of Keith Floyd, who was an established TV chef at that time. Shame.

[@johnbeck9]

The wonderful Fanny Cradock in full flow. Wogan's show should have been after the watershed to get the full Fanny effect.

[@dee4174]

I found her very scary. She is like the cross Granny at a Christmas buffet. You want to love her but she's so agressive. 😂

[@chrispaw1]

Who does she keep looking at over her shoulder? 😂😂

[@david18ireland]

she's more than likely looking at the audience members who are over that way.

[@Actingskint]

The grim reaper .

[@ria1636]

@@Actingskint You certainly are skint!

[@calebwalton8408]

She wrote romance novels which is such an extraordinary thing

[@thesteamaddict4286]

That's John Inman eating her crackling!

[@RodKirkbride]

Excellent! Go Fanny!!!

[@gailraby1722]

Genius... bless her heart, quite quite mad.

[@tiziocaio6236]

Was derided in a documentary on Keith Floyd as being staid and teacher-like. In fact she was far more exciting than Floyd. Fanny was down to earth, Floyd was over the top

[@ericwinnert]

Brilliant. She was hilarious

[@Artbox49]

Why is everyone recalling her as a lovely person? She was a gruesome, condescending posh type. She relied on the fact that in the 60s and 70s, ordinary people assumed that such people were their 'betters' and had to be admired and obeyed.

[@satansgenitalia]

Yeah I can see that, but she was camper than Christmas. The audience are laughing at her here. From a safe distance she is a bit of a harmless cartoon character.

[@simonjones7727]

She really was not posh. Quite humble beginnings in Leytonstone. It was all a very carefully constructed persona. I don't think she was so bad either, she brought a tiny bit of glamour to drab, drab, drab Post War Britain.

[@seansmith445]

Fake posh. A bit like Mrs Thatcher.

[@nickhickson8738]

Remember Lady Isobel Barnet?

[@rnw2739]

The attitude of 'they are your betters' is more the late 19th and early 20th century. Certainly wasn't the way the public thought in the 60s and 70s!

[@RenaissanceEarCandy]

On her Wikipedia page, on the section where it says about the people who helped her out after Johnnie could no longer, it ends with "There was also a long line of young men who didn't last very long". I don't know why that's so funny.

[@allanking6833]

down to earth lady. good on you

[@unaadair2137]

Wonderful woman.

[@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws]

She was absolutely correct about " convenience food" its worse than muck, its toxic and sometimes carcinogenic. Processed food, especially ultra processed food isnt food as your body needs it, it causes so many adverse reactions that cause inflammation and shortens peoples lives.

[@babychickenstudios]

0:39 - you can have those bits too, now go away 🤣

[@bijou4735]

She wasn't wrong about Barbara Cartland lol

[@yeahyeahbell6417]

"Are you gonna bake me a cake? Sing me a song whilst I blow out me fucking candles?"

[@joannawood8935]

That's not a tool, that's a fucking rolling pin! 🤣

[@samsum3738]

I came 'ere for a real shoot out ,wiv proper gangsters ...

[@paulblatchfordplymouth]

‘’If you cant cook, your a rotten wife”..... there’s an awful lot of them today.

[@jackburton2148]

I have been with a chef for about ten years. I would be a rotten wife for sure; can't cook for shit compared to that guy.

[@ria1636]

Hope you can cook better than your grammar!

[@SZYB3]

Life when we could be ourselves without being slagged off by do gooders and real food unlike processed shit now ....radical change needed to turn clock back to better times more healthy times mentally and physically .....less couch tatos about ......hardly any fat kids in school....generation game. .....great prog.....now we got the voice or X factor......wtf....boring as hell

[@sannytizer7772]

Yes, and we can't even say fanny nowadays without a public inquiry !!

[@RenaissanceEarCandy]

Oh of course you can be yourself you tart. Don't be such a Daily Mail drama queen.

[@earlscourtsw10]

I met Fanny & and her husband, Jonny once, back in the 70’s. She made a special guest appearance at our village fete. There was rather a catastrophe as she was about to leave - she slipped and fell into a stagnant old fishpond, and poor Jonny had to drive all the way back to Sussex with a stinking, dripping fanny

[@chrisredditch]

She's wearing one of Jimmy Saviles tracksuits

[@ria1636]

Troll!

[@chrisredditch]

@@ria1636 Not really. Trolls attack posters. I've just made a joke about her clothes.

[@Patrick3183]

Wow she has 1930s makeup and hair in the 80s!

[@dn8015]

Patrick3183 she looks fabulous

[@ria1636]

The 1930's retro look was also fashionable then.

[@bpg9992]

when people get old i realise they move back to the fashions that were popular when they were children/young adults, my grandma for example grew up during the war and always wore the classic 40s style two piece skirt suit

[@sunking45]

She was born in 1909. She would have been in her 20s in the 1930s, so that was her time really.

[@Signedpeach]

My goodness, absolutely bonkers

[@58christiansful]

He should have told us whether he enjoyed her Greek pitta!

[@xtusvincit5230]

I cant stand this woman, but she makes despising her such a pleasure!

[@ria1636]

How sad.

[@christopherw7925]

Why do you hate fanny?

[@lillianflorence6056]

She was lovely, and the galloping gormay

[@stephenroney6490]

Hands up who likes fanny?

[@davidmccourt9949]

Amazing

[@snowflakemelter1172]

What a horror.

[@daryllcornier4509]

Id love all my soufflés to come out looking like fannys.

[@dangerousdazza]

Strange woman

[@lnteIIigence]

Getting old is scary. People often sound out of breath.

[@stephenclarke2206]

I thought she was in the early stages of dementia when I first saw this

[@Bhatt_Hole]

Our fellow co-commentor, Object, wrote this, a few comments down: "A textbook psychopath Married four times, two of them bigamously, and abandoning her two little boys when one was four and the other a baby, On her husband Johnnie dying of cancer..... When Johnnie's surgeon eventually rang Fanny to warn her that she might never see him alive again, she finally turned up at the hospital, but not for long. "I offered to leave the room," said Yvonne Norris, "but Fanny said: 'Don't go. I'm only going to be five minutes.'" True to her word, she stayed only long enough to take Johnnie's signet ring away with her. Later, she refused to attend his funeral." Is this true?? If so, how on earth could y'all continue to adore this beast?

[@softnflabby]

Did she ever not look like she'd been dead for six weeks?

[@Ampex196]

A living, breathing monster. Johnnie Cradock quote (live to air): "I hope all your cakes turn out like Fanny's"!

[@object764]

A textbook psychopath Married four times, two of them bigamously, and abandoning her two little boys when one was four and the other a baby, On her husband Johnnie dying of cancer..... When Johnnie's surgeon eventually rang Fanny to warn her that she might never see him alive again, she finally turned up at the hospital, but not for long. "I offered to leave the room," said Yvonne Norris, "but Fanny said: 'Don't go. I'm only going to be five minutes.'" True to her word, she stayed only long enough to take Johnnie's signet ring away with her. Later, she refused to attend his funeral.

[@Bhatt_Hole]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaamn! Dat bitch cold!

[@wandawizard5605]

Feisty Fanny. 😂 Doesn’t pull any punches. 😂

[@simonjones7727]

Great to see this clip. Victor Lewis-Smith described her as looking like a cross between Margaret Thatcher and Bette Davis in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"

[@RenaissanceEarCandy]

I once heard someone say she looked like across between Mary Berry and Jeremy Clarkson

[@rnw2739]

Here, I'd say the love child of Doris Hare and Donald Sinden.

[@Marcotc17]

Was that young chef at the beginning a young John Inman (Are You Being Served?)?

[@victoriaauty6123]

No it's my Uncle who worked for her!

[@cclewes7373]

Good old Fanny.

[@oldandnew1234]

Rude...

[@vaslav030547]

Oh Dear. She does neither feminism nor cookery any favours.

[@mrjason9382]

Lovely women

[@Juliukas101]

She has no likeability at all and comes across as a bullying diva.

[@tomonastick]

Vile!

[@tomonastick]

Oxygen thief

[@jakecavendish3470]

She used to come into our shop in the 1980s, but we had to put newspapers down because she had begin to leak unexpectedly by that stage. I'm hoping they cling filmed the chair for this interview!

[@JJ-hr7dd]

What a pathetic comment. Hope you struggle in your old age and people talk about it ( but they won’t because that’s shitty )

[@rnw2739]

Yes, so you said. Are you in all Miss.Craddock's KZbin videos comment sections, informing the world about her defective bladder, weak pelvic floor and urine leaking flaps?

[@psycoticbastard]

RIP WOGAN