Martine McCutcheon - Showbiz

trawets09 · 06-10-2009, 20:57

Seems to be making a bit of a comeback, she has her debut novel "The Mistress" coming out

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mistress-Mar...4862454&sr=8-1

And has taken part in an interesting photoshoot for Breast Cancer awareness

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/...78_468x697.jpg

And has been photographed at "The Pride of Britain Awards"

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/...75_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.

Chickens hit · 06-10-2009, 21:01

"uber talented"

trawets09 · 06-10-2009, 21:03

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Originally Posted by Chickens hit

"uber talented"

I think she is, her acting in EastEnders to me was really good and no one can deny the woman has a great voice.

Mrs.W · 06-10-2009, 21:06

Are you her PR person by any chance

trawets09 · 06-10-2009, 21:07

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Originally Posted by Mrs.W

Are you her PR person by any chance

pobop · 06-10-2009, 21:09

None of these celebs write their own books, you cannot be that naiive.

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.

trawets09 · 06-10-2009, 21:12

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Originally Posted by pobop

None of these celebs write their own books, you cannot be that naiive.

Autobiographies yeah but a novel ghost written by another and credited for by Martine? highly unlikely.

Camino · 06-10-2009, 21:16

i dont like her

Sara Webb · 06-10-2009, 21:24

No ta.

doughnut8 · 06-10-2009, 21:33

Two words: Love Actually

Another two: Complete Shit

pobop · 06-10-2009, 21:35

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Originally Posted by trawets09

Autobiographies yeah but a novel ghost written by another and credited for by Martine? highly unlikely.

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.

Tabbythecat · 06-10-2009, 22:09

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Originally Posted by doughnut8

Two words: Love Actually

Another two: Complete Shit

Is she still knocking about with that Jack Johnson bloke

mickeybloke · 06-10-2009, 22:12

martine who???

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

Tabbythecat · 06-10-2009, 22:14

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Originally Posted by mickeybloke

martine who???

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

Dont forget it was she who threw up on Mick Hucknall so he had to cut off his famous curly red mop

mickeybloke · 06-10-2009, 22:37

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Originally Posted by Tabbythecat

Dont forget it was she who threw up on Mick Hucknall so he had to cut off his famous curly red mop

she has her uses then i guess......

zx50 · 06-10-2009, 23:00

I thought she looked quite good looking when she was in EastEnders, however, now she's lost a bit of that appeal to me. I dunno...she just doesn't look as nice now.

Ameri · 06-10-2009, 23:10

I don't think she's relevant any more. She seems a bit dated. I think she's had her 15 minutes of fame.

DavetheScot · 06-10-2009, 23:21

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Originally Posted by trawets09

I know many here find her unlikable and stuck up but to me she is uber talented and hot.

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.

EuanMebabe · 07-10-2009, 06:53

"Alls I knows is I was Tifferney"

And that was probably the only time Dawn French ever made me laugh.

thats_racist · 07-10-2009, 09:22

Ugh, lets hope we don't have to see her gurning away on Loose Women, GMTV et al now that she has something to plug.

I can't bear the woman although she does have one saving grace - she did vomit on Mick Huknall after all.

Rose Petals · 07-10-2009, 09:37

I don't mind her but she's a bit meh.

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.

haphash · 07-10-2009, 12:00

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Originally Posted by doughnut8

Two words: Love Actually

Another two: Complete Shit

I'd go along with that.

Sloopy · 07-10-2009, 12:05

Oh no, not her again.

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.

Bandita · 07-10-2009, 12:31

She's always been very tiresome, she hasn't done anything of note for years apart from appearing on programmes like Paul O'Grady saying she's got something in the offing, but never seems to materialise.

EuanMebabe · 07-10-2009, 12:32

Below is Brian Sewell's review of Martine McCutcheon's performance of Eliza Doolittle. And I thought I could be harsh! Has she worked since?

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatr...DF16DF9146683B

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.

06-10-2009, 20:57	#1
trawets09 Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 322	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-Mar...4862454&sr=8-1 And has taken part in an interesting photoshoot for Breast Cancer awareness http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/...78_468x697.jpg And has been photographed at "The Pride of Britain Awards" http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/...75_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.

07-10-2009, 12:32	#25
EuanMebabe Forum Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 93	Never mind posh, she can't do cockney Below is Brian Sewell's review of Martine McCutcheon's performance of Eliza Doolittle. And I thought I could be harsh! Has she worked since? http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatr...DF16DF9146683B 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.

06-10-2009, 21:01	#2
Chickens hit Forum Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,342	"uber talented"

06-10-2009, 21:06	#4
Mrs.W Forum Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 497	Are you her PR person by any chance

06-10-2009, 21:09	#6
pobop Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 69	None of these celebs write their own books, you cannot be that naiive. 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.

06-10-2009, 21:16	#8
Camino Forum Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Buckinghamshire Posts: 1,376	i dont like her

06-10-2009, 21:24	#9
Sara Webb Forum Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,638	No ta.

06-10-2009, 21:33	#10
doughnut8 Inactive Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,095	Two words: Love Actually Another two: Complete Shit

06-10-2009, 22:12	#13
mickeybloke Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,465	martine who??? 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

06-10-2009, 23:00	#16
zx50 Forum Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Consett area Services: Pentium 4 XP Professional Laptop 10.9Mbit/1.3MB/s Be* Pro Posts: 23,842	I thought she looked quite good looking when she was in EastEnders, however, now she's lost a bit of that appeal to me. I dunno...she just doesn't look as nice now.

06-10-2009, 23:10	#17
Ameri Forum Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 4,114	I don't think she's relevant any more. She seems a bit dated. I think she's had her 15 minutes of fame.

07-10-2009, 06:53	#19
EuanMebabe Forum Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 93	"Alls I knows is I was Tifferney" And that was probably the only time Dawn French ever made me laugh.

07-10-2009, 09:22	#20
thats_racist Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 183	Ugh, lets hope we don't have to see her gurning away on Loose Women, GMTV et al now that she has something to plug. I can't bear the woman although she does have one saving grace - she did vomit on Mick Huknall after all.

07-10-2009, 09:37	#21
Rose Petals Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Derbyshire Services: Simon, Howard, MJ, Boy George, Pete, Robert Posts: 5,450	I don't mind her but she's a bit meh. 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.

07-10-2009, 12:05	#23
Sloopy Forum Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 59,491	Oh no, not her again. 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.

07-10-2009, 12:31	#24
Bandita Forum Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Aberdeen/shire Posts: 927	She's always been very tiresome, she hasn't done anything of note for years apart from appearing on programmes like Paul O'Grady saying she's got something in the offing, but never seems to materialise.