Bo' Selecta!

Bo' Selecta! was a British adult sketch show written and performed by Leigh Francis, that lampooned popular culture and was known for its often surreal, abstract toilet humour.

Background

Bo' Selecta! was broadcast on Channel 4 and ran for three series between 2002 and 2004, spawning several spin-offs. Francis played central character Avid Merrion, a dangerously insane stalker, who is obsessed with celebrities and tracks them down. The show consists of sketches involving various celebrities, portrayed by Francis in a latex mask. The most popular sketches involve entertainers such as Elton John, David Blaine, Kelly Osbourne, Michael Jackson, Mel B and central character Craig David. Avid Merrion would appear in his own sketches placed throughout each episode. Another recurring character on the show played by Francis is "the Bear", a perverted teddy bear who interviews (real, as opposed to portrayed) celebrity guests, where he will make them read a bedtime story to him. Each story starts off the same way and ends with the celebrity (usually female) performing a sexual act, causing the Bear to have an erection.

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Keith Lemon: 'I'm afraid that people either like me, or they wish I was dead'

Belfast Telegraph 30 Jun 2018

Keith Lemon is busy tweeting Taylor Swift when I first walk into London's Planet Hollywood restaurant for our chat ... There's plenty more where that came from in Keith Lemon ... But, spoiler alert. it doesn't go too well ... He adds ... I like pubs ... It's fair to say Celebrity Juice, in which we see Lemon in all his glory, has been a big success for the comedian, who we were first introduced to in Channel 4 sketch show Bo' Selecta! back in 2002 ... ....

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'Love Island': the beginner's guide

Irish Independent 07 Jun 2018

Reality series Love Island was a runaway success last year, becoming the most-watched show in the history of ITV2 as 2.43 million viewers tuned in to watch the final live on television last July ... If you didn't watch it last year, here is everything you need to know about the show ... She rose to fame in her role as Bubbles on Bo' Selecta! in 2002 and has since hosted The X Factor and won series 12 of Strictly Come Dancing ... They stated ... ....

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Caroline Flack age, relationship with Andrew Brady and Love Island role

Metro UK 04 Jun 2018

Caroline Flack is back in the Love Island villa. Love Island is back – and once again Caroline Flack is at the helm as presenter. The former Strictly champion turned X Factor presenter turned Love Island host has fronted the series since it returned to screens in 2015 ... She got her big TV break in the Leigh Francis sketch show Bo Selecta back in 2002 – in which she played Bubbles – but turned to presenting after that debut. Advertisement....

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Caroline Flack’s having a blast fronting TV’s most addictive dating show Love Island

Sunday Post 27 May 2018

Register for our free newsletter. HOT and steamy, it was THE big talking point last summer. Not the weather, unfortunately, but the racy goings-on and flirty antics on Love Island. The ITV2 show went from low-key, late-night guilty pleasure to mainstream, guilt-free must-see ... Caroline has thrived during her decade and a half in the cutthroat business of TV, since getting her break on sketch show Bo’ Selecta! in 2002 ... “It works ... ....

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Snowbombing day 2: Craig David goes freestyle rap wild, Jax Jones, street party, and more

NME 11 Apr 2018

The Re-Rewind singer impresses the crowd at Snowbombing's annual Street Party with his rapid freestyle rap, following sets from MistaJam and Jax JonesCraig David at Snowbombing, Austria ... The singer then launched into ‘Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)’, walking around the stage, gesticulating his arms, and singing hunched over into the microphone ... The only downside to David’s set was his sampling of R ... Craig David at Snowbombing ... ....

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Famalam's stars: 'We're the rap mixtape of comedy!'

The Observer 09 Apr 2018

‘We both have a love of Bo Selecta,” says Akemnji Ndifornyen about his and Famalam director Tom Marshall’s shared appreciation of Leigh Francis’s mask-heavy 00s sketch show ... “It’s weird,” Ndifornyen acknowledges....

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Keith Lemon has gone bald and we don’t know what to think

Metro UK 10 Feb 2018

Keith Lemon looks unrecognisable with a shaved head (Picture. Getty Images). Leigh Francis, best known as his alter ego Keith Lemon, has undergone a dramatic transformation for series two of The Keith and Paddy Picture Show ... It is in fact the result of some very clever makeup ... The comedian is no stranger to dressing up in order to create different and unique characters, including the much loved Bo Selecta! star Avid Merrion ... More ... MORE ... ....

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Craig David: How music's figure of fan got his groove back

Stuff 08 Feb 2018

Rightster. Craig David reflected on how things have changed at last year's V Festival in Essex ... Francis named his surreal, celebrity-skewing sketch show, Bo Selecta, after one of David's lyrics and his rubber-faced, incontinent pastiche of the star became its most famous character ... READ MORE. ... Many things are "amazing" ... After Bo Selecta cast him out into the wilderness of pop-culture parody, his music became increasingly irrelevant....

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Craig David: The Time Is Now review – selfie addict stays just about on-trend

The Observer 27 Jan 2018

There is something relentlessly, gloriously embarrassing about Craig David. Even during his turn-of-the-millennium heyday – before the Bo’ Selecta! spoof, the wilderness years in Miami (largely spent posting topless selfies online) and his reinvention as a club-night host – there was something decidedly uncool about his rapid melisma and perfectly manicured beard ... Craig David review – resurrected Romeo pays homage to a fallen playa ... ....

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Craig David’s Comeback Proves That Nice Guys Don’t Always Finish Last

Time Magazine 26 Jan 2018

garage club classic ‘Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)’, then-17-year-old David became Britain’s hottest new artist ... A British TV comedy sketch show called Bo’ Selecta!, in reference to David’s first hit, reincarnated him as a caricature ... Soon after Bo’ Selecta! David’s reputation turned from trendy to tragic seemingly overnight....

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Girl snubs Craig David live on BBC Breakfast in hilarious moment

Digital Spy 26 Jan 2018

We all love an hilarious live TV moment, and one on BBC Breakfast earlier this morning (January 26) will definitely become a classic. Guest Hannah was appearing on the red sofa alongside her mum to talk about the importance of first aid when she was asked about Craig David ... Poor Craig – first Bo' Selecta, now this ... ....

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Craig David’s guide to being relentlessly positive at all times

NME 26 Jan 2018

That came before his debut album – 2000’s ‘Born To Do It’ – shifted more than 8 million copies, and before he was lampooned on the comedy show Bo’ Selecta! from 2002-6 ... Craig was famously spoofed on ’00s show Bo’ Selecta!, named after Artful Dodger’s 1999 smash ‘Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)’ on which Craig featured....

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“Too many tunes, always too many tunes!” A pool party in Ibiza with Craig David

New Statesman 19 Dec 2017

Are you going to be that guy who blames the engineer? Everything I’ve honed, I’ve honed through things that have gone wrong.” *** Rewatching Bo’ Selecta! , the sketch show created by Leigh Francis in 2002, it is quite surprising how nasty some of it was ... But is it really a joke? Because last time I checked, that bass line was heavy! ‘Bo selecta’ was a cultural thing....

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