Entertainment Live: Tributes to Victoria Wood

Summary

News and updates for 20 April 2016
Comedian Victoria Wood dies aged 62
Aniston named 'world's most beautiful woman'
Radio 1 to play more music from the UK
Dame Judi Dench to appear on Countryfile
Phillip Schofield to make Joseph return

Live Reporting

Neil Smith and Chris Long

A sad farewellpublished at 18:00 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
Neil Smith
Entertainment reporter
That's all we have time for, on a live page that has been understandably taken over by the sad news of Victoria Wood's death.
It's only fitting, though, that we should give her the last word, with a song she might almost have written for this very occasion.
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Victoria Wood's big break due to make-up lady's 'nagging'published at 17:55 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
Paul Stewart Laing, who gave Victoria Wood her big break with a place on TV talent show New Faces in, says it was all thanks to one of the programme's make-up ladies:
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She used to nag all the time, 'you've got to see this girl, she's so funny'. Her sister was at Birmingham University with Victoria and she thought she ought to have a chance on a talent show.
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So eventually after a lot of nagging, I'm glad that we did, she came onto New Faces and she won it... she obviously went on to bigger things.
Rhod Gilbert: Victoria Wood had 'funny bones'published at 17:52 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
Comedian Rhod Gilbert has added his voice to the tributes being paid to Victoria Wood.
He told BBC Radio Wales:
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She was one of the greats... stand-up, sketch writer, musician. Her various characters and costumes - she was physically so funny, her eyes, her face, her comic timing, everything.
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She captured the mundane side of everyday life perfectly. She had that thing... she walks through a door at the back of a sketch and you're laughing already. She's the very definition of funny bones.
More tributes to Victoria Woodpublished at 17:49 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
More tributes have been paid from across the entertainment world to the comedian Victoria Wood, who has died aged 62.
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Lord Bragg: Victoria Wood was a 'great, original talent'published at 17:45 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
Lord Bragg, who presented the arts programme The South Bank Show - which featured Victoria Wood more than once - said she was "an inspiration for so many women stand-ups".
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She was the first to take it on and go all round the country and she was the first to crack this idea that a woman could do everything right across the spread.
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She admired Joyce Grenfell, who was marvellous, but she could do Dickensian things like create these wonderful characters at Acorn Antiques and so on.
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I think she was a great, original talent and I was rather choked up when I heard the news.
Victoria Wood's theatrical successespublished at 17:37 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
Victoria Wood was not just a TV star; she also wrote extensively for the theatre, starting with her first play Talent, which premiered at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre Studio in 1978.
It was adapted for TV a year later, with Wood and Julie Walters starring. Twelve months on, her second play Good Fun opened at the same theatre.
Wood went on to write a musical, Acorn Antiques, which had a sold-out run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2005.
A documentary about the making of the show was broadcast the same year before the show toured the UK in 2006 and 2007.
In 2009 she revisited her first effort when she directed a new version of Talent at the Old Laundry in Windermere, which then transferred to the Menier Chocolate Factory in London.
Charities remember Victoria Woodpublished at 17:33 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
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Victoria Wood on Todaypublished at 17:28 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
Here's a clip of Victoria Wood from 2011, telling Radio 4's Today programme about how she had always felt drawn to the north of England and her thoughts on the so-called North-South divide.
Bridesmaids director 'very sad' to hear of Wood's deathpublished at 17:23 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
A tweet from Paul Feig, the American director of Bridesmaids, Spy and the upcoming Ghostbusters remake, shows that Wood's comic genius was not just celebrated by British audiences.
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Victoria Wood 'taught women we could be funny too'published at 17:19 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
Among the tweeted tributes are a number of people who have celebrated Victoria Wood's position as a pioneering female comedian.
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Wood 'understood the way Northern people spoke'published at 17:16 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
Poet Ian McMillan, a friend of Victoria Wood's, has praised her use of language.
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She understood the way that Northern people spoke and she understood our syntax and she understood the way that Northern place names and Northern Christian or surnames could become funny.
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She could actually make a kind of poetry out of the way that we talked, and it was poignant, and it was funny, and it was clever.
Labour leader pays tribute to Victoria Woodpublished at 17:13 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
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Victoria Wood: In picturespublished at 17:10 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
A look back at the life and work of Victoria Wood, following the death of the writer, director, actress and comedian.
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League of Gentlemen stars remember Victoria Woodpublished at 17:07 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
Mark Gatiss and Reece Shearsmith, fellow members of the League of Gentlemen comedy team, had this to say about Victoria Wood.
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Victoria Wood in her own wordspublished at 17:03 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
Here are some memorable quotes from Victoria Wood about one of her favourite subjects - sex.
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In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television... and as far as I was concerned, if Pinky and Perky didn't do it, I didn't want to know about it.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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I once found myself in bed with a man who was a real do-it-yourself enthusiast. He ripped off all his clothes and said 'What would you like me to do?' I said, 'Well, really I'd like you to fix my overflow and re-point my brickwork.'
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My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar.
See Wood's biography page, external on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) for more.
Sir Lenny 'devastated' by Victoria Wood's deathpublished at 16:59 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
Sir Lenny Henry has joined those sharing their thoughts on the death of Victoria Wood.
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I am devastated - this is very, very sad news. Victoria will be sorely missed.
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Always funny, she worked incredibly hard. A killer stand-up and a fantastic songwriter. My condolences to all her family.
James Corden 'grateful' to have seen Victoria Woodpublished at 16:57 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
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Victoria Wood in picturespublished at 16:54 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
The About the BBC blog has gathered together a photo gallery of some of their favourite shots from Victoria Wood's career.
You can see more of the photos here.
Victoria Wood on her love of musicpublished at 16:49 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
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'Another great taken from us'published at 16:47 British Summer Time 20 April 2016
The tributes keep coming in for Victoria Wood, whose death at the age of 62 has been such a huge shock to so many of us this Wednesday afternoon.
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