
If anyone else has this video on the internet i will be astonished. This embarressing moment from THIS MORNING TV show- will surely haunt Bill forever!
So rare!
It was released as a CD (the song!)- but i can’t find it anywhere! The comedy appeal is a must! N.B This is not live- and is mimed!! Which makes it even more horrifying. Enjoy if you dare!!
was shown in part on
TV’S WORST MUSIC MOMENTS!
Mine is the full UNCUT version.
Got this info from a Coronation Street site -
Ken and the crook
18 April 1999
BROKE Coronation Street star Bill Roache has teamed up with a convicted fraudster in a desperate bid to clear his £300,000 debts - by becoming a pop star! Bill, 66, is so hungry for cash he is releasing a rap version of the raunchy Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin classic Je T’Aime.
The elderly heart-throb, who has played dull Ken Barlow in the soap since 1960, is even reduced to humiliating night club appearances where he does “bump ‘n’ grind” shows with young dancing girls to the tune Danse L’Amour. But the ex-jailbird behind the embarrasing pop plan said: “I’ve convinced him that a pop career is a way to sort out his troubles.” And Ken said: “I really enjoy it. It’s not just a song or dance but a whole lifestyle thing - dress, music, everything.”
Bill, whose troubles began when he sued a newspaper for calling him boring, has already begun a nightclub tour of Britain to promote his new career. The pensioner pop star drew wild screams and guffaws of laughter from 900 revellers at his first gig in the Goldiggers club in Chippenham, Wilts, when he appeared on stage with two gyrating girl dancers. But we can reveal that the man the actor has gone into business with is Muhammed Naviede, who has been to prison for fraud and has been disqualified as a company director.
In 1991, the Arrows finance group, of which Naviede was a director, collapsed owing more than £100 million. The Cheshire-based company was chased for cash by 20 banks and other creditors. Then in 1995 he was jailed for nine years at the Old Bailey after a six-month trial for a £45 million business scam. The sentence was later reduced to six on appeal and he has since qualified for early release.
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