Martin Fry

So yeah, I think it was just like a mixed opportunity.

And also as someone who watched Centurions in my childhood, both movies, I kind of agree with Martin Fry, the guest judge, saying that Rupert Everett, it's not like his most memorable role at all.

And so for Alec to be doing a stellar job of a non-hilarious character is already... very interesting so yeah she was a great actress with no jokes it was very funny um yay uh for my midsection I actually with uh Charlotte Tilbury I'm just not familiar with her at all I think so that's why for me flash fell dead in the middle uh with KY Kelly uh who would also put it number seven uh and actually yeah and Anita for anita i'm a bit surprised but she decided to go the bill skarsgård route when another scandinavian actor class class bank was right there with uh stephen moffat's dracula for netflix because that would have been a much funnier dracula because uh dracula the bill i guess who's him i guess steve i forgot his first name uh the agus's movie uh is very deathpan it's like very like dead on um you know accurate there is no subversion in him it's just like a very straightforward Dracula with no comedic like timing or being like campy as it was for the BBC and Netflix like a couple of years before so I think that was the wrong Scandinavian actor to pick of the two um yay uh but still she was like perfectly fine uh yeah and especially i just think her answer for uh digging her teeth into was a bit of a mixed missed opportunity because like it was for her she's regular come on you're literally there to put your teeth into somebody uh but yeah i would i would say the top four for me i would include guy fox there so mocha as well I would say that I don't think she, like, kind of fizzled by the end, because I think her most memorable moment at the expense of Perry's baby came at the very end, basically, of the Snatch Game, right before we said, like, cut the cheers.

She was like, and that was the one supposed to be bombing.

So, I mean, yeah, I mean, series six in particular, because, like, almost half of the lip syncs were with male vocals, even the Rocky Horror one.

So, I mean...

this was and it works each time because like we got so many great lip syncs of that series so maybe they were thinking okay like abc was basically you know like poor man's duran duran in the 80s and we have uh the vocalist there let's sing a martin fry so here he is yeah yeah he he's the singer of that song that's why he was like so you know animated during the the lip sync itself yeah with his arms in particular I was living for his reaction more than I was living for the song to be honest with you but yeah it was interesting choice I still enjoyed the song a bit better than last week oh

yeah better than last week for sure But, yeah, better than last week for sure.

Founders Mark White and Stephen Singleton originally formed a band called Vice Versa in 1977.

Singer Martin Fry used to go to their gigs, instantly recognizable apparently because he's six foot four-

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... and he would wear these long floor length leather coats.

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But we need to shout out Martin Fry on lead vocals, and you've got Mark White guitar, keyboards, and Stephen Singleton that we've heard of on saxophone.

And in 1982 David Palmer joined on the drums.

Ha, thanks, Dad.

This next one, exactly what it sounds like, Martin Fry's love letter to Smokey Robinson and Motown.

But the chart gods subsequently produced a wonderful coincidence.

In America, ABC's When Smokey Sings and Smokey Robinson himself with One Heartbeat were on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time, and eventually both were simultaneously in the US Top 10.