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Only Fools and Horses superhero fancy dress episode named best TV moment
The Only Fools and Horses special which saw Del and Rodney sport superhero fancy dress has been voted the most memorable Christmas TV moment ever. According to a poll by TV channel Gold, 50 per cent of Brits named the scenes broadcast in 1996 as their favourite festive escapade of all-time, beating Wallace and Gromit's The Wrong Trousers into second place. The episode, entitled Heroes and Villains, involved the hapless Trotters being invited to what they thought was a costume party. Del sported a <a Read more...
Dom Joly plays trick in fun fancy dress
Dom Joly played a trick on Gillian McKeith by sporting fun fancy dress for a practical joke. The former Trigger Happy TV star crept up on his fellow I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here contestant, who did little but moan and scream since she got to the jungle. However, the prank was made even better by the fact that he was wearing cockroach fancy dress, Unreality TV reports. As expected, Gillian squealed before bursting into slightly hysterical laughter. Read more...
Katy Perry: I'll wear fun fancy dress for as long as I can
Katy Perry has revealed she is keen to keep on wearing fun fancy dress for as long as she can get away with it. The pop star told People magazine she has always loved dressing up and would get changed for breakfast, lunch and dinner as a child. However, she acknowledged that she might not always get away with kaleidoscopic latex dresses and whipped cream bras. "They have an expiration date and that's why I'm wearing them now at 25," Katy commented. At the moment though, the wife of Russell... Read more...
Strictly stars to don film fancy dress
Viewers of Strictly Come Dancing will get a treat at the weekend when its stars sport film fancy dress in a special episode. A trailer released for the BBC One show features the remaining contestants in an array of familiar outfits, with some sexy and some more traditional. Perennial viewers' favourite Ann Widdecombe will wear Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz fancy dress, while Pamela Stephenson is to become vamped-up Sandy from the final Read more...
Gran in superhero fancy dress becomes internet sensation
An elderly lady wearing superhero fancy dress has become an internet sensation after her grandson posted the pictures on the internet. Frederika Goldberger, 91, had been feeling a little down, so Sacha Goldberger from Paris persuaded her to put on a load of costumes and pose for photographs. Although she refused at first, she eventually agreed and now there are thousands of snaps of the gran in various lycra outfits. She now has more than 2,200 MySpace followers and has become a major talking point. Sacha explained that he came... Read more...
Writer looks forward to Canadian festival in fun fancy dress
A writer is looking forward to a Canadian festival which he said always results in fun fancy dress. In an article for the Metro, Alex Macpherson revealed he went to Igloofest for the first time in January 2009 and discovered a very exciting - if extremely chilly - event. Indeed, the journalist said he experienced temperatures 15 degrees C below freezing at Quai Jacques-Cartier in Montral, where Igloofest is to have its fourth outing in 2011. "You might think the necessity of wearing so many items of thick, sensible clothing... Read more...
Emma Watson embraces life after Potter with historical fancy dress
Emma Watson has been enjoying wearing historical fancy dress after spending ten years as Hermione in the Harry Potter series. The young actress has been filming for a forthcoming British film called My Week With Marilyn and she told the Belfast Telegraph she had to spend quite a lot of time in a corset. "It's amazing to play a role that's in a different time period - the '50s are so much fun and I loved wearing the costumes," she commented. However, Emma added that she wouldn't like to have... Read more...
Santa shunned for Christmas fancy dress this year?
Anyone going to a Christmas fancy dress party soon may notice a distinct lack of jolly fat men in red suits. This year at Escapade, it has been noted with some surprise that sales of Father Christmas fancy dress are down to their lowest levels in the last ten years, with shoppers instead selecting other attire in which to dress up. Our own Bhupendra Maisuria commented: "I think the general consensus is that Santa is an obvious choice for dressing up for Christmas Read more...
Sexy fancy dress clears man of robbery
Part of a sexy fancy dress costume has helped to clear a man of armed robbery, it has been revealed. The Spar shop in Washingborough was held up in December last year and witnesses said the man who did it was wearing a stocking on his head, the Mirror reports. Suspicion fell on Stefan Cummins, 27, who had been wearing naughty schoolgirl fancy dress a few weeks before for a Halloween party. However, the suspect was luckily able to take police to Read more...
Matthew Goode to wear Superman fancy dress for new film?
It has been speculated that Matthew Goode could be set to don the famous Superman fancy dress outfit in order to play him in the forthcoming film. The new movie will be released in 2012 and director Zack Snyder is still considering who he wants to play the Kryptonite-fearing alien. Although Joe Manganiello's name had been high on the list of potential actors, it has now been widely rumoured that Goode is Snyder's ideal choice. If this is the case, it will not be the first time he has sported... Read more...
Ke$ha orders costume change over historical fancy dress fears
Pop star Ke$ha ordered a last-minute costume change for her recent X Factor performance in Australia after fearing that her dancers looked as though they were in historical fancy dress. The Tik Tok singer was due to appear on stage within hours, but she suddenly expressed concerns that the red armbands sported by her entourage made the outfits look like Nazi fancy dress. "Ke$ha was concerned … and requested they be removed, as this was simply not Read more...
Pupils show off knowledge with historical fancy dress
A group of children were able to show off their knowledge recently after their school organised an historical fancy dress day. Year three pupils at Benson Primary School had been doing a five-week project on the Romans and celebrated the end of it with a special themed costume day, the Henley Standard reports. Not only did they sport Roman fancy dress, but they also ate food from ancient times, made jewellery out of clay and played Roman Read more...