Forgetting I’d left the TV on down the hall, when first I heard this ad’s soundtrack as noises off, I feared a kookaburra had invaded my sitting room. Closer inspection revealed the horrendous cackle as none other than that of Peggy Mitchell risen, phoenix-like, from the ashes of the burnt-out Queen Vic to be crowned the Queen of Bingo in a skit that recalls ancient variety show, The Good Old Days. It seems The People’s Pearly Queen, Babs (no relation to those stuck-up Windsors down the Mall) has hit the jackpot here. Released from her BBC contract, the ‘national treasure’ can finally afford a wig that looks, oh, about 15% real rather than those hideous acrylic haystacks the game old bird sweated under while tending to her bingo-brained brood in Walford. Watch it here
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