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I won't get over that in a hurry: my least favourite atrophied Hazel McWitch lookalike in the world, singing "I just want to make love to you", right there on primetime telly. She has to be the only person on Earth who can take a lyric like that and make it seem like a blood-curdling threat without changing any of the words.
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On Gillian McKeith singing
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"Screen Burn". The Guardian. 3 June 2006. Retrieved on 2007-08-19. 

 

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