The Great British Beauty Contest

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[@Toooldforthis78]

I had to check it and Fred Dinenage really was 38 in that clip, Jeez I’ve never felt so happy with how I’ve aged in my life! I could pass for his grandson and I’m 7 years older than him

[@anonUK]

38 going on 58.

[@dcflake5645]

Fred Dinage. Born at age 52 and barely aged a day

[@rumourhats]

The more niche the content of this channel gets, the better it is.

[@eatmywords]

it's not that niche. these shows were actually very popular before the feminists spoiled all our fun. it was actually our mum who wanted to watch miss world back in the day, and for 2 hours my dad would regularly whine about how there's something better on every other channel.

[@theharshtruthoutthere]

@@eatmywords Souls, when we judge: biological females to be ugly, lets know and understand this life fact that all models and miss universes are biological MALES IN DRAGS. Lets always judge rightly not falsely.

[@greenaum]

Good old Dinenage! He chose a haircut he liked back in 1968, and he's stuck with it. Not many people are that tenacious.

[@pipster1891]

Who'd've thought Dinenage was a reactionary?

[@arranboon1]

Bloody love Fred.

[@stephenhough4957]

All over the Anglia area….from Ely to Great Yarmouth, from Norwich to Swaffham…oh, the glamour

[@Toooldforthis78]

The irony is when you shouted “I’ve never felt so alive” I laughed so much I nearly had an asthma attack and died!!

[@iainlee]

'Nope...there are more ladies' absolutely did me in for some reason.

[@anonUK]

"Shes still at school... wants to meet Woody Allen" 😮

[@greenaum]

The entire breeding crop for Norfolk that year. They've all got a bit of that Fred West look to them.

[@Dan_Does]

"Like Highlander, except everyone knows how big your hips are." This killed me.

[@ChrisHopkinsBass]

Anglia TV at the time really had a knack of making something cheap and tawdry look extremely cheap and tawdry. They loved their silver tinsel!

[@BigyetiTechnologies]

10:25 - I honestly thought they were going to break into The Muppets theme 12:35 - Then it all goes a bit Partridge with "Alan's Funny Stories"

[@ChrisHopkinsBass]

Miss Anglia 1980 has definite "Sale of the Century" vibes to it!

[@B3tanTyronne]

This show really did not help offset the belief that Norwich and the surrounding areas had an issue with inbreeding.

[@camptube7621]

I’ve often defended the 70s/80s criticism of misogyny and sexism. Watching this, I completely stand corrected. Can’t help remember Partridge and his beauty pageant. 😂

[@therespectedlex9794]

Misandry

[@notreallydavid]

'This is what's paying your school fees. Caroline, so I'm not going to discuss it any further.'

[@COL321]

"The winner will travel all over the Anglia area" the lucky lucky lady... great video as always, cheers!

[@eatmywords]

and the even luckier runner-up, won't.

[@Timmertube75]

Have you even been to Stowmarket? Not a clue.

[@anonUK]

Here's a woman you're not related to, from the magic flashing light box!

[@katewolfspirit6722]

Ooh yes, I'd love a day trip to Ipswich! Said no one, ever.

[@Eckalicious]

The winner of Miss Anglia had the stage presence of the Lady in the Radiator from Eraserhead.

[@ollieclixby3199]

But thankfully not the cheeks.

[@markglendinning3956]

‘The previous rounds must have eliminated more women than Thanos’ - sublime

[@alundavies1016]

Not that I doubted you but Brucie’s daughter… that is some fantastic trivia!

[@Perfect_Rice]

This must have been a highlight year, because I remember Bob Mills featuring it on In Bed With MeDinner. Edit: and the second show at the end as well.

[@aaronshakespeare6714]

This channel is absolute gold. Love it. I've been watching your content back to back. I've never felt so alive!

[@tedpilledtonysoprano5512]

10:37 time stamp to hear Stuart krumping.

[@acerimmer1023]

I've watched one of your videos every morning for the last two weeks....and I go from laughing to shock in seconds ...and, thanks to you, laughing again! Brilliant cheers 😂👍👍👍

[@multirevelator]

the woman who left the bath running woz robbed

[@alisoneales]

This is wonderful. I especially love that the band at 15:45 are playing The Peanut Vendor, it's a great callback. I've never *felt* so alive.

[@theefishlippedone]

There must of been a lot of secretaries working at Anglia House

[@ChrisHopkinsBass]

Some of those girls at the start of Miss Anglia 1980 look like they’ve been sedated

[@ChrisHopkinsBass]

£1000 cash and a 1 year contract with Anglia TV.........oh my god!

[@therespectedlex9794]

You wouldn't take it in these times of austerity and job centres?

[@pipster1891]

You forget...Thatcherite mass unemployment had just begun.

[@wearemany73]

This was clearly stages of a job interview moulded into a programme. That way it can be resold and can pay for itself.

[@quaid667]

They're all such lovely goyles lol

[@kildogery]

"Lovely dad" FFS, I spat my tea everywhere.

[@pavlovsdogman]

The good ole days! Back when you could make racist jokes and everyone laughed (well not the everyone) and you could backhand your missus and no one even cared! Ahhh good ole days!! Nowadays I can't even use the N word at the supermarket without being cancelled! 😉

[@pipster1891]

Don't worry, mate, those days are coming back.

[@robmortimer4150]

The commentary on this was really funny!

[@therespectedlex9794]

And that big ball area in the middle of the head thing, like Fred Dineage, Roger Mcgough, Sean Connery... just doesn't exist anymore.

[@colinr0380]

With Judy Geeson as a judge, the year before she was in Inseminoid!

[@sonnyjimbod]

10:40 More of this please.

[@MrDavey2010]

Brilliant commentary! Thanks so much!

[@gregmark1688]

If you pause it @ 6:34, just after the words "... and she'd like to be happy", it's one of the funniest and / or saddest things I've seen binging these vids. Because she very clearly is _not_ happy, but it's only her lower lip and eyes that show it. That upper lip remains firmly stiff. Chin up, dear --It's just 1980, you've years more of Maggie to get through.

[@Tubby_brewster82]

Look at the syrup balancing on the second judges head

[@hadz8671]

I always think of Fred Dineage as David Vine lite.

[@Valveus]

How?

[@chrisflee1]

The phallic entrance looks like the door to the escalator on Are you being Served? Thing is, I'd rather watch this than 'Naked Attraction'. This should be re-released with the Fred Dineage (38 yrs at the time!) parts replaced with a young Alan Partridge. 'what does walking mean?'

[@joshbaker1581]

Ahhh so this is what Partridge was parodying

[@danielhegarty6733]

Please keep making more videos

[@ScareMeSexy71]

I'VE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE!!! lol

[@jointgib]

i enjoyed this video

[@clarkkent4734]

This is beyond gold. Had me rolling 🤣

[@SUK2293]

My mum was on this.

[@mattw8332]

Patrick Mower later goes on to do an advert for Austin Rover in the 1980s: “Morris Eye-tal“. As does Noel Edmunds a few years after! Wonder what the 1 year contract with Anglia TV entailed. Presenting a tv show or working in a canteen? 🤔

[@leejones8582]

Keep up the good work Stuart.

[@tomsenior7405]

Father Ted; "The Lovely Girls Competition".

[@BenjaminAshmead]

fred dinenage STILL has that haircut

[@StuartMillard]

Long after he's dead, that thing will be walking around by itself

[@quaid667]

@@StuartMillard How? 🤣🤣🤣

[@katewolfspirit6722]

@@StuartMillard He will be forever referred to as Fred Drainage in our house! 😆

[@therespectedlex9794]

Actually darker dye, with no comb over in the middle. Just a bare pate instead.

[@moonkeele]

The winner will travel all over the... Anglia area. BFD

[@saxongreen78]

After some Chinese or other meat free cuisine, I like some jam roly poly...that shows loads of common sense. I'd also like to be happy.

[@alundavies1016]

I forget the hair of my childhood, not my hair, but the hair of women around me!

[@timdaly3531]

This video was fucking lovely

[@Battismore-Blue]

Guys and Dolls never replaced David and Therese then

[@notreallydavid]

Oddly affecting, innit? Wonder how it all turned out for them. How'd you know about Brucie's daughter being Brucie's daughter?

[@StuartMillard]

There's nothing in my skull but useless trivia about light entertainment

[@notreallydavid]

@@StuartMillard We're all grateful for that.

[@xxFORDIExx]

This is hilarious as always.

[@djsherz]

I thought I was watching the Lovely Girls contest from Father Ted.

[@gwh3013]

OF course, they ALL have lovely bottoms

[@wobbers99]

Superb commentary LOL

[@xxFORDIExx]

Patrick Mower is utterly creepy

[@haitch2676]

When does Alan Partridge make an appearance?

[@roscovb]

Lovely

[@youaintseenmeok]

Just found your ch love it

[@80srenaissance67]

Some of those women.....they must have known they werent really eligible 😂

[@GavTatu]

i won't lie..... i am aroused.

[@babettesfeast6347]

Fred Dinage is Alan Partridge

[@DEATHTRAPTRAILERS]

I lost it at "38 years old."

[@Toooldforthis78]

Every time he popped up all my brain did was go “38 - THIRTY EIGHT!!!!” Repeatedly

[@DukeOfKidderminster]

Doesn’t Mary have a lovely bottom?

[@eveglead1913]

Careful now Ted,we had a lot of problems with that last year.....

[@DukeOfKidderminster]

@@eveglead1913 Of course … they all have lovely bottoms.

[@mattw8332]

​@@eveglead1913They all have lovely bottoms!

[@anonUK]

I don't think Anglia TV ever showed that movie Miss Lovely Girls 1979 did...

[@jacko717]

Well, judging by the contestants, Anglia was short of some Quality Anus back then.

[@spunkychops7484]

Genius

[@mrblueeyes7889]

Brilliant x

[@PaulF0ley]

Go on lad

[@JamsterJules]

Love it 😂

[@philchigges2955]

and Bob barker shouldn't have been anywhere near those women!!!!!

[@j0hnf_uk]

I could never take any of these kind of show seriously or have any real compunction to want to watch them. Any I did watch, I would have lost interest in short order. I wonder how much of their annual budget Anglia Television blew on this waste of time? I wouldn't have been old enough to watch the other one, but again, I wouldn't have taken any interest at all.

[@danbit]

Yes Mi'Lard! ❤

[@pipster1891]

One contestant was doing A-levels in Art, English and Biology. Interesting combo. I wonder if she got that degree in Shakespeare and Dissection from Ipswich Poly.

[@pipster1891]

...from you and ME, not I. Get away from I!

[@se8425]

Lovely

[@AldoMonkey]

Lovely