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.
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.
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.
@@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 RUclips - 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.
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 😂
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.
+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! :-)
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...
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.
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 💩
@headron66 That "notorious" incident with the amateur cook actually serms very tame now. It's difficult to see how it caused such a fuss. I saw it at the time, but I remembered the fuss more than the actual programme. When I was little, I always found FC quite scary. Not because of her manner, but because of her eyebrows.
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....
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.
They were characters then, they didn't have to watch every word they spoke like now but even so they sacked Fanny which was very short sighted of them.
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.
She was great and a real character.She always dressed up beautifully and had a restful voice.It was a shamme they sacked her.She was only giving her opinion on the lady's choice of menu which was a bit too rich and full on and the lady was a bit upset but I'm sure Fanny didn't mean to be cruel.
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.
It was such a missed opportunity to not invite Kenneth Williams alongside Fanny Cradock, would have been fascinating to see how they'd handle each other in that same era.
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.
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.
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
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
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?"
I love the people in the comments talking trash about her. These are the same people who tolerated Jimmy Saville for almost 50 yrs and thought his creepy ass was just lovely.
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?
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
Madonna was partially responsible for that a la the video for ‘Live to Tell’ and a number of other 1930s themed films hitting big at the box office at that time.
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.
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.
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.
@@Annastesia1988 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.
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.
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
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!
Yes, so you said. Are you in all Miss.Craddock's RUclips videos comment sections, informing the world about her defective bladder, weak pelvic floor and urine leaking flaps?
What shop was that, and where was it??? You expect people to believe when you saw her at the door you'd start throwing newspapers over the floor LMAO???
@@Tearsandbjs It was the newsagent in Bexhill in the late 80s (it's now a barber shop). We had free local newspapers so we used those as obviously we couldn't use profitable stock. It was just the area near the counter because that had carpet on it, the rest of the shop was tiled so it wasn't such an issue there and she was quite slow by then so there was time before her reaching the counter to get a couple of layers down.
I know it is hard to believe but this is genuinely true, I was a child in Bexhill at the time and I remember this happening! Had forgotten all about the newspaper until now 😂😂😂
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!
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.
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.
Bullshit. Personality is not missing on so many chefs.
She was a crap, rude, snobby wretxh of a person and cook
@@glamdolly30
Thank goodness!
She was a vile bullying piece of shit who got sacked for being so
Always cooked slap up meals while wearing an evening gown and no apron, and never once got dolloped with anything.
Funny, very intelligent and well spoken. And she suffers no fools. That’s why people are scared of her. I think she’s amazing.
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.
James Dooling You’re right. She’d have become more popular nowadays rather than disappearing.
Spot on James.
She was an absolutely shite cook as well though
Why did she fall from grace?
@@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 RUclips - 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.
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 😂
She
Best way to be 😊
I think she's brilliant, a shame she was fired. Don't get many people like that now.
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.
BLTKellys LOL - how melodramatic... Oh dear me - we have got a chip o the old shoulder... :-)
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. :-)
+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! :-)
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...
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.
You are spot on there.
I AGREE!@@dee4174
@@dee4174yep!
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 💩
@headron66 That "notorious" incident with the amateur cook actually serms very tame now. It's difficult to see how it caused such a fuss. I saw it at the time, but I remembered the fuss more than the actual programme.
When I was little, I always found FC quite scary. Not because of her manner, but because of her eyebrows.
Even Julia Child held Fanny in high regard!
whoa! that says a LOT then!
Terry Wogan was such a smart interviewer and talk show host
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....
Can you imagine someone, anyone, saying "If you can't cook, you're a rotten wife" on today's television? Bravo, Fanny.
There have been many celebrities, but not many personalities: I think she was almost as pure personality as someone can be.
Very well said.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 Thanks, Zac!
“Because it’s not not nice to duchess of Windsor and I had to wait till she was dead” 🤣😂
i love her in spite of myself- she talks no bull - puts Terry through his paces, great interview
She's right about convenience food
Fanny looks well here and her food looks splendid .
Excellent! Go Fanny!!!
She wrote romance novels which is such an extraordinary thing
She looks like Edina Monsoon on AbFab when they go into the future. She looks like the elderly version of Edina Monsoon!!!
The wonderful Fanny Cradock in full flow. Wogan's show should have been after the watershed to get the full Fanny effect.
down to earth lady. good on you
My goodness, absolutely bonkers
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!
She was a horror,bully,liar,over the top cook ! That’s allegedly coming from me?
Genius... bless her heart, quite quite mad.
Brilliant. She was hilarious
She was the Iron Lady of Cookery and Chat Shows. Would haven given Maggie Thatcher a run for her money! Didn't realise how funny she was at the time.
My family loved her.
That's John Inman eating her crackling!
Lol! I was looking and thinking "I'm sure I know her from somewhere". I'd almost convinced myself it was a young Delia Smith.
Bow down to greatness!
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.
They were characters then, they didn't have to watch every word they spoke like now but even so they sacked Fanny which was very short sighted of them.
Barbara? Splendid woman. Bit overdone.
I burst out laughing at that 😂
"But I am, myself"!
"Are you gonna bake me a cake? Sing me a song whilst I blow out me fucking candles?"
That's not a tool, that's a fucking rolling pin! 🤣
I came 'ere for a real shoot out ,wiv proper gangsters ...
0:39 - you can have those bits too, now go away 🤣
"It's a load of muck!"
As a gay man this is the only fanny I love to see
Lol that comment gave me a laugh 😂😂😂😂
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.
Wonderful woman.
She was really ahead of her time declaring processed food "absolute muck".
She was great and a real character.She always dressed up beautifully and had a restful voice.It was a shamme they sacked her.She was only giving her opinion on the lady's choice of menu which was a bit too rich and full on and the lady was a bit upset but I'm sure Fanny didn't mean to be cruel.
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.
👍🏻She could have been a Brummie or a Northerner She was so outspoken 🤣
It was such a missed opportunity to not invite Kenneth Williams alongside Fanny Cradock, would have been fascinating to see how they'd handle each other in that same era.
“A bit over done, but so am I” 😂😂😂🥰🥰🥰
Amazing
Who does she keep looking at over her shoulder? 😂😂
she's more than likely looking at the audience members who are over that way.
The grim reaper .
@@Actingskint You certainly are skint!
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. 😂
Feisty Fanny. 😂 Doesn’t pull any punches. 😂
Genius.
how brilliant would a cooking co.petition between her and Gordon Ramsay be?
kay si fanny would leave Ramsay shaking in his boots. She's fabulous
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.
A living, breathing monster.
Johnnie Cradock quote (live to air): "I hope all your cakes turn out like Fanny's"!
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.
Daaaaaaaaaaaaamn! Dat bitch cold!
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
Floyd over the top 😂😂😂😂😂 u could not meet a most down to earth person
wonderful woman
Love fanny 😊
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
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?"
I once heard someone say she looked like across between Mary Berry and Jeremy Clarkson
Here, I'd say the love child of Doris Hare and Donald Sinden.
She was funneh here! 😂😊😊❤️
Was that young chef at the beginning a young John Inman (Are You Being Served?)?
No it's my Uncle who worked for her!
Crunch Crunch Crunch 😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉
She's wearing one of Jimmy Saviles tracksuits
Troll!
@@ria1636 Not really. Trolls attack posters. I've just made a joke about her clothes.
I love the people in the comments talking trash about her. These are the same people who tolerated Jimmy Saville for almost 50 yrs and thought his creepy ass was just lovely.
She wasn't wrong about Barbara Cartland lol
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?
Tbh that's all fairly normal in England
It really isn't. @@KyleBrown-k2c
She was lovely, and the galloping gormay
Wow she has 1930s makeup and hair in the 80s!
Patrick3183 she looks fabulous
The 1930's retro look was also fashionable then.
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
She was born in 1909. She would have been in her 20s in the 1930s, so that was her time really.
Madonna was partially responsible for that a la the video for ‘Live to Tell’ and a number of other 1930s themed films hitting big at the box office at that time.
Good old Fanny.
‘’If you cant cook, your a rotten wife”..... there’s an awful lot of them today.
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.
Hope you can cook better than your grammar!
She was a cruel bully.She could not bear to have anyone as good or better than her.
I cant stand this woman, but she makes despising her such a pleasure!
How sad.
Why do you hate fanny?
Not hard to believe she was addicted to pills, uppers and downers. On the med rollercoaster.
Getting old is scary. People often sound out of breath.
Well she was a smoker and had compromised lungs - maybe even emphysema
Its rumoured she had a pilots license for those eyebrows lol
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.
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.
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.
Fake posh. A bit like Mrs Thatcher.
Remember Lady Isobel Barnet?
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!
She reminds me of that grandma at that age. (Her looks, definitely not her personality. lol)
Hands up who likes fanny?
She???? 😂
Fanny & Johnny weren’t actually married despite appearances.
They were
@@Annastesia1988 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.
@@infectedvoice5162 She actually did.
A bigamist marriage.
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.
Not a line on her face .... what’s her secret
Mashed swede
@@MegaStig25 - Ha! You beat me to it.
Embalming fluid!
Face-lift
The secret's in the booklet!
He should have told us whether he enjoyed her Greek pitta!
😂🤣💫
Id love all my soufflés to come out looking like fannys.
Did she ever not look like she'd been dead for six weeks?
Strange woman
I thought she was in the early stages of dementia when I first saw this
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
Yes, and we can't even say fanny nowadays without a public inquiry !!
Oh of course you can be yourself you tart. Don't be such a Daily Mail drama queen.
She was a horror,bully,liar,over the top 👩🍳! I allegedly said lookin at my lawyer?
Lovely women
Vile woman. Belongs in the past.
Like you
Vile!
What a horror.
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!
What a pathetic comment. Hope you struggle in your old age and people talk about it ( but they won’t because that’s shitty )
Yes, so you said. Are you in all Miss.Craddock's RUclips videos comment sections, informing the world about her defective bladder, weak pelvic floor and urine leaking flaps?
What shop was that, and where was it???
You expect people to believe when you saw her at the door you'd start throwing newspapers over the floor LMAO???
@@Tearsandbjs It was the newsagent in Bexhill in the late 80s (it's now a barber shop). We had free local newspapers so we used those as obviously we couldn't use profitable stock. It was just the area near the counter because that had carpet on it, the rest of the shop was tiled so it wasn't such an issue there and she was quite slow by then so there was time before her reaching the counter to get a couple of layers down.
I know it is hard to believe but this is genuinely true, I was a child in Bexhill at the time and I remember this happening! Had forgotten all about the newspaper until now 😂😂😂
Oh Dear. She does neither feminism nor cookery any favours.
Rude...
She has no likeability at all and comes across as a bullying diva.
Oxygen thief
how brilliant would a cooking co.petition between her and Gordon Ramsay be?
Brilliant? It would be miraculous - she's been dead for more than 20 years!
I know. That is why I was using my imagination
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!
Fanny would leave Ramsay begging for mercy...she had style and class and breeding !!!
show jumper Style, class, and breeding? Interesting point of view....