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'she moved to television in a series which was allegedly a response to, and parody of, those made by another celebrity chef, Delia Smith.' I find this very hard to believe. Don't parodies require some kind of obvious similarity to the thing they are parodying? Delia Smith's programmes and 'two fat ladies' have pretty much nothing in common.
Uh. Is that *really* her name, or is there a vandal among us? I can't find a supporting reference besides the IMDB (which is user-edited) and Wikipedia mirrors. Parents have certainly done worse things to their children. Vashti 17:53, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
According to this transcription [1] of her Desert Island Discs Interview, it's correct. -- Eine 18:28, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
In an interview on Radio 5 Live Simon Mayo Programme on 6th September 2007 she confirmed that this was her name. Trilby, she said, was the nickname of an aunt of hers.
According to the autobiog
Clarissa (a book in her parents' library) Theresa (Saint of Avila) Philomena (her mother's fav saint) Aileen (for her mother) Mary (as a Catholic child) Josephine Agnes ('two rich relatices who did not remember me in their wills') Elsie Trilby (for my grandmother) Louise (for the cook) Esmerelda ('for my father's favourite pig as I was born in the Chinese year of that animal')
Great stuff
The Eye Of Sauron 07:17, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Her birth is recorded on the Wright page of the indexes - which transcribe the birth certificate. Her name was Wright, not Dickson-Wright. Typical of the half-truths that pervade her rather tragic story. Sebmelmoth ( talk) 16:42, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
I am puzzled by Clarissa being classified as Scottish seeing as she was born and seems to have spent much of her live in England? However, I do not know much about her. I have refined the category to Scottish TV chef but would be interested to hear whether this is appropriate. -- Vince 19:21, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
IS this one the dark haired one with the glasses or the light haired one?
On thr above radio interview she referred to her self as an ex-patriate Scot.
For starters phrases like "BTW beware the 3RR", is totally uncalled for. I have been on Wikipedia some time and am well aware of it. To be honest it sounds like a threat, and I'd sooner you didn't threaten me. However, to the point. I don't know whether you have a POV, but its seeming like you do. Where's the controvesy - you have invented it. She has been taken, via private prosecution, to a magistrates court on a hunting charge. It received a very small amount of media attention. What is contraversial - nothing. This does not warrant its own section, to do so invents the serious of it, pretends there was a contravesy. This, I think, is your POV. Each section should cover a major part of her life, not one small private prosecution with little media attention. It needs to be merged with the main text, which I will do when I am able under 3RR. -- UpDown 06:59, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi. :) I've had a look at your conversation and at the history of the article, and it seems to me that the current organization of the article, with the arrest incorporated into the section above it, presents some difficulty. Even if "controversy" is too strong a word for the section, it certainly doesn't seem to fit in as "rise to fame." Given how recent it is, it may develop into a controversy before its over, but it seems appropriate now to either section it off in some way from the material above it—it could be moved off into a new section neutrally entitled "Criminal prosecution"—or or to restructure the existing article. For instance, "Alcoholic years" could be retitled "Early years" and the bookstore information moved into it. The "Rise to fame" section might be renamed "Television career", and the material after Absolutely Fabulous moved into a new section with the current criminal charge labeled something like "Recent years". -- Moonriddengirl 20:23, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
How did she manage to get through £2.8m (in 1975 money) in only eight years? Thats about £1000 a day. I'm sure that even in 2008 money, spending £1000 or probably even £100 a day on booze would be fatal. 80.2.192.85 ( talk) 00:55, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Maybe she was buying other people drinks. People with low self esteem and a lot of cash flow tend to do that. Magmagoblin2 ( talk) 14:16, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Nothing says that she spent the money clear on booze. She is known for enjoying good food both before and after, as evidenced in the show. Caviar, foie gras and so on is hardly cheap. 79.102.24.205 ( talk) 08:39, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
I've seen her explain this on TV. She used to hold lavish parties, including hiring yachts and inviting her friends for boozy cruises. Darmot and gilad ( talk) 14:37, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Hard to see where £2.8 million came from. Her father left £73,000 and her mother £28,688 according to the National Probate Calendar. Sebmelmoth ( talk) 12:07, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
I am going to remove the section on the charges that were brought against her in September 2007. No news ever appeared of what happended in Court (at least not that I saw or can find). Below is the section, so if we ever find out what happended we can reinsert it.-- UpDown ( talk) 18:15, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
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Has anyone got a copy of the autobiography quoted from in 2007 above, so that we could add a reference for the unlikely-looking, but apparently verifiable, string of names? PamD ( talk) 11:09, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
The autobiography is interesting because of its make-believe nature. Her father was not knighted - easily checked in the London Gazette. She told most of East Lothian that she had had sex with the Duke of Hamilton on the dining table in his house at Archerfield as she planned to be the next Duchess. In "Spilling the Beans" there are 14 references in the index to the Duke but at the point where such events are likely to be recorded, the editors have removed paragraphs so the index points to missing material. The Duke was very clear that the table would not have taken her weight, let alone the two of them, and he was, reasonably, revolted by her. Her birth was not registered with that daft list of names, some of which belong to her sister Heather. She may have been christened with those names - as various obits record. Her birth registrations shows her as plain Clarissa Dickson-Wright and that is the name used in her various bankruptcies in the London Gazette (although some of those do start on the longer string. Sebmelmoth ( talk) 14:32, 18 March 2014 (UTC)==File:Clarissa Dickson Wright.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion==
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According to the Telegraph obituary she was called to the Bar in 1970, which depending on which call would have made her 22 or 23 at the time - not by any means the youngest called, even at that date. Apart from her own claim, which is what all the press sources are apparently based on, is the call date evidenced elsewhere? Jsmith1000 ( talk) 15:28, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
This article could give information if it mentioned how Clarissa Dickson Wright plugged Open All Hours when the BBC had a poll for the nation's favourite sitcom. I am not sure whether it should go in the section headed "Career" or the section headed "Later years". Vorbee ( talk) 18:18, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
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In one of the TFL shows, Clarissa led off with ‘My mother was AW-stralian, which means that if you have a picnic, you must have a fire…’ True. But why then associate her mother with Singapore? 124.150.79.224 ( talk) 09:27, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
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'she moved to television in a series which was allegedly a response to, and parody of, those made by another celebrity chef, Delia Smith.' I find this very hard to believe. Don't parodies require some kind of obvious similarity to the thing they are parodying? Delia Smith's programmes and 'two fat ladies' have pretty much nothing in common.
Uh. Is that *really* her name, or is there a vandal among us? I can't find a supporting reference besides the IMDB (which is user-edited) and Wikipedia mirrors. Parents have certainly done worse things to their children. Vashti 17:53, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
According to this transcription [1] of her Desert Island Discs Interview, it's correct. -- Eine 18:28, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
In an interview on Radio 5 Live Simon Mayo Programme on 6th September 2007 she confirmed that this was her name. Trilby, she said, was the nickname of an aunt of hers.
According to the autobiog
Clarissa (a book in her parents' library) Theresa (Saint of Avila) Philomena (her mother's fav saint) Aileen (for her mother) Mary (as a Catholic child) Josephine Agnes ('two rich relatices who did not remember me in their wills') Elsie Trilby (for my grandmother) Louise (for the cook) Esmerelda ('for my father's favourite pig as I was born in the Chinese year of that animal')
Great stuff
The Eye Of Sauron 07:17, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Her birth is recorded on the Wright page of the indexes - which transcribe the birth certificate. Her name was Wright, not Dickson-Wright. Typical of the half-truths that pervade her rather tragic story. Sebmelmoth ( talk) 16:42, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
I am puzzled by Clarissa being classified as Scottish seeing as she was born and seems to have spent much of her live in England? However, I do not know much about her. I have refined the category to Scottish TV chef but would be interested to hear whether this is appropriate. -- Vince 19:21, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
IS this one the dark haired one with the glasses or the light haired one?
On thr above radio interview she referred to her self as an ex-patriate Scot.
For starters phrases like "BTW beware the 3RR", is totally uncalled for. I have been on Wikipedia some time and am well aware of it. To be honest it sounds like a threat, and I'd sooner you didn't threaten me. However, to the point. I don't know whether you have a POV, but its seeming like you do. Where's the controvesy - you have invented it. She has been taken, via private prosecution, to a magistrates court on a hunting charge. It received a very small amount of media attention. What is contraversial - nothing. This does not warrant its own section, to do so invents the serious of it, pretends there was a contravesy. This, I think, is your POV. Each section should cover a major part of her life, not one small private prosecution with little media attention. It needs to be merged with the main text, which I will do when I am able under 3RR. -- UpDown 06:59, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi. :) I've had a look at your conversation and at the history of the article, and it seems to me that the current organization of the article, with the arrest incorporated into the section above it, presents some difficulty. Even if "controversy" is too strong a word for the section, it certainly doesn't seem to fit in as "rise to fame." Given how recent it is, it may develop into a controversy before its over, but it seems appropriate now to either section it off in some way from the material above it—it could be moved off into a new section neutrally entitled "Criminal prosecution"—or or to restructure the existing article. For instance, "Alcoholic years" could be retitled "Early years" and the bookstore information moved into it. The "Rise to fame" section might be renamed "Television career", and the material after Absolutely Fabulous moved into a new section with the current criminal charge labeled something like "Recent years". -- Moonriddengirl 20:23, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
How did she manage to get through £2.8m (in 1975 money) in only eight years? Thats about £1000 a day. I'm sure that even in 2008 money, spending £1000 or probably even £100 a day on booze would be fatal. 80.2.192.85 ( talk) 00:55, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Maybe she was buying other people drinks. People with low self esteem and a lot of cash flow tend to do that. Magmagoblin2 ( talk) 14:16, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Nothing says that she spent the money clear on booze. She is known for enjoying good food both before and after, as evidenced in the show. Caviar, foie gras and so on is hardly cheap. 79.102.24.205 ( talk) 08:39, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
I've seen her explain this on TV. She used to hold lavish parties, including hiring yachts and inviting her friends for boozy cruises. Darmot and gilad ( talk) 14:37, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Hard to see where £2.8 million came from. Her father left £73,000 and her mother £28,688 according to the National Probate Calendar. Sebmelmoth ( talk) 12:07, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
I am going to remove the section on the charges that were brought against her in September 2007. No news ever appeared of what happended in Court (at least not that I saw or can find). Below is the section, so if we ever find out what happended we can reinsert it.-- UpDown ( talk) 18:15, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
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Has anyone got a copy of the autobiography quoted from in 2007 above, so that we could add a reference for the unlikely-looking, but apparently verifiable, string of names? PamD ( talk) 11:09, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
The autobiography is interesting because of its make-believe nature. Her father was not knighted - easily checked in the London Gazette. She told most of East Lothian that she had had sex with the Duke of Hamilton on the dining table in his house at Archerfield as she planned to be the next Duchess. In "Spilling the Beans" there are 14 references in the index to the Duke but at the point where such events are likely to be recorded, the editors have removed paragraphs so the index points to missing material. The Duke was very clear that the table would not have taken her weight, let alone the two of them, and he was, reasonably, revolted by her. Her birth was not registered with that daft list of names, some of which belong to her sister Heather. She may have been christened with those names - as various obits record. Her birth registrations shows her as plain Clarissa Dickson-Wright and that is the name used in her various bankruptcies in the London Gazette (although some of those do start on the longer string. Sebmelmoth ( talk) 14:32, 18 March 2014 (UTC)==File:Clarissa Dickson Wright.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion==
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According to the Telegraph obituary she was called to the Bar in 1970, which depending on which call would have made her 22 or 23 at the time - not by any means the youngest called, even at that date. Apart from her own claim, which is what all the press sources are apparently based on, is the call date evidenced elsewhere? Jsmith1000 ( talk) 15:28, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
This article could give information if it mentioned how Clarissa Dickson Wright plugged Open All Hours when the BBC had a poll for the nation's favourite sitcom. I am not sure whether it should go in the section headed "Career" or the section headed "Later years". Vorbee ( talk) 18:18, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
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In one of the TFL shows, Clarissa led off with ‘My mother was AW-stralian, which means that if you have a picnic, you must have a fire…’ True. But why then associate her mother with Singapore? 124.150.79.224 ( talk) 09:27, 15 May 2022 (UTC)