1. Jenny Eclair returned to England when she was two years old, and she started her education at Queen Mary school in Lytham St Annes.
21 Facts About Jenny Eclair
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Jenny Eclair is said to have adopted the alternative surname Eclair in her teens, when she was at a disco in Blackpool and pretended to be French.
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Jenny Eclair studied at the Manchester Polytechnic School of Drama and joined a cabaret group variously referred to as Kathy Lacreme and the Rum Babas, and Cathy La Creme and the Rum Babas.
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Jenny Eclair then saw an advert in The Stage looking for novelty acts and found work doing punk poems.
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Jenny Eclair provided alternative commentary of the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 for BBC Choice viewers as part of the channel's Liquid Eurovision Party coverage, as a late replacement for broadcaster Christopher Price who died the month before the contest took place.
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Jenny Eclair helped develop, and appeared on, BBC Two's Grumpy Old Women and its various spin-off shows.
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In 2003, Jenny Eclair was a panellist on Loose Women and returned from 2011 to 2012.
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In 2007, Jenny Eclair was featured in episode 5 of the Channel 4 series Empire's Children, a genealogy research programme which followed British public figures as they rediscovered their heritage and its links to British colonialism.
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Jenny Eclair returned to her birthplace of Kuala Lumpur to explore the historical background of the Malayan Emergency in which her father had fought.
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Jenny Eclair confronted her father who confirmed that they were real and that collecting severed heads was a common practice by the British military in Malaya.
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In 2005, Jenny Eclair appeared in the reality show Comic Relief Does Fame Academy.
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Jenny Eclair was a contestant in The Great Pottery Throw Downs December 2022 festive celebrity show.
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Jenny Eclair was a contestant in the fifteenth series of Taskmaster, alongside comedians Frankie Boyle, Mae Martin, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Ivo Graham.
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Until April 2008, Jenny Eclair hosted a weekend talk show on LBC 97.3.
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Between 2014 and 2022, Jenny Eclair wrote seven series of Little Lifetimes, short monologues for female actors, broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
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Jenny Eclair has hosted her own show on the London radio station LBC Radio and starred in various stage productions.
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Jenny Eclair sat in for Danny Baker on BBC London 94.9 from Tuesday 30 August until Friday 2 September 2011.
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Jenny Eclair became an Ambassador for audiobook charity Listening Books in 2019.
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Jenny Eclair appeared at Derby Playhouse in The Killing of Sister George from 13 September 2008 until 18 October 2008.
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Jenny Eclair is the mother of the playwright Phoebe Eclair-Powell, who was born in 1989.
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Jenny Eclair has discussed having an eating disorder and becoming anorexic while at drama school, saying that she "didn't cook or eat for about 10 years".