", Patsy is an alcoholic, a chain smoker, and a frequent recreational drug user. Barbara Jane Horrocks (born 18 January 1964) is an English actress, voice artist, musician and singer, who played the roles of Bubble and Katy Grin in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (19922016). In the earlier series, she is a valuable ally for Saffron in her struggle for domestic control, often mentioning embarrassing facts from Edina's and Patsy's childhood. She has a well-paying, do-nothing job as a director for a fashion magazine, which she received after sleeping with the publisher. [33] She also won the BAFTA for Best Light Entertainment in 1993, and a British Comedy Award the same year for best actress. This event, which Sarah insisted on referring to as a chemical peel, triggered Sarah to seek professional counselling, which seemed to drive her into a deeper state of imbalance. In 2012, the Olympic special revealed that Saffron splits her time between her Mother and her new family, living three months in the UK and another in Nigeria with John and Jane respectively so she can continue her charity work. Mother is often shown to rather enjoy the spoils of her daughter's lavish lifestyle - stealing items from her house to give to charity and, as the series progresses, frequenting the house to drink Edina's expensive champagne, sometimes with her own friends. Mother (June Whitfield). Eleanor Parker, who played the haughty Baroness Schraeder in 1965s The Sound of Music, died Monday following complications from pneumonia. With an incredibly simplistic, child-like outlook and interpretation of the world around her, Bubble regularly and unknowingly sees through the ridiculousness of the world in which she works. Bubble has the most eclectic fashion sense out of all the characters. Magda is the editor of the magazine where Patsy is Fashion Director, whereas Fleur and Catriona are either editors or directors of other departmentstheir roles never being specified, although Magda states Catriona is the features editor in their first appearance. In the second episode, "Fat", she visits Edina's home to see Saffron, and in the third episode, "France", goes to stay there while Edina is abroad. With Edina's PR company on the brink of collapse, she manages to dupe Claudia into purchasing a TV company - which has no programmes developed - and giving her back several high-profile clients. Patsy has a rather sinister sister called Jackie with whom she has a tense relationship. She is loud and obnoxious, but with warm and caring tendencies. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Fleur and Magda are both guests at Saffron's wedding, which is the last time Magda appears in the series. "[6], In a flashback showing Patsy's birth, after telling an attendant to cut the cord, Patsy's mother exclaims that she names the child Eurydice Colette Clytemnestra Dido Bathsheba Rabelais Patricia Cocteau Stone. She has an ambiguous relationship with Edina and seems to regard her with indifference, giving all her motherly devotion to Saffron. Which Scottish singer regularly played herself in Absolutely Fabulous? Sometimes she recognises the eccentricities of Edina, Patsy, and visitors to the house. Patsy and Edina Monsoon were childhood friends, and since her mother despised and neglected herregarding her more as a rival than a daughtershe came to rely on the Monsoons for most of her shelter, comfort, and food (though she has only been seen eating twice since 1973). She has a fractious relationship with her Mother and her ex-husbands Marshall and Justin. Fleur states she intends to fall back on her Revlon connections to find work. However, she is so lonely without Edina that she quickly returns to London. Initially, the three appear in series one, episode six, "Magazine", as colleagues of Patsy's. Saffron uses the surname Monsoon, as she introduces herself on a phone call as Saffron Monsoon in The Last Shout Part 2. In the hospital, the two sisters recall how Jackie stole the "only man Patsy ever loved". When Donald Trump Met the Star of Absolutely Fabulous And more utterly thrilling tidbits from Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley, who return to play Patsy and In series 5, when she returns home pregnant from a stint of humanitarian work in Uganda, Edina has nightmares at the prospect of being a grandmother until she learns that Saffron's lover, John Johnson, is black, making the baby mixed race and, as such, a fabulous fashion accessory - "the Chanel of babies!" Patsy seems uneasy around Mother, but in later episodes, appears to be fond of her, despite the odd snide comment between the two. WebThe pretended son of the fabulous Napoleon is said to have been born on the 20th of March, the season of the spring equinox, when agriculture is assuming its greatest period of activity. She married Max, a fellow designer. However, later episodes reveal that her neglectful mother did not send her to school for many years, meaning she could have been classmates with Edina yet still some years her senior. | She shares a codependent, parasitic existence with her old schoolfriend Edina. When helped in a situation that someone else might find alarming or disconcerting, Patsy often responds with a calm "Cheers, thanks a lot." She is often treated as a member of the family and is usually present at any special occasion in the Monsoon household. The two have kept in touch, but their friendship is strained when Saffron's friend Sarah begins to stalk Emma, leading to her eventual arrest. They rescind this when Patsy threatens to kill Fleur. On this occasion, Edina appears clueless on Lulus current engagements, and suggests Lulu needs a really good PR machine to revive her career and asks who does her PR, to which Lulu responds "You do!" Magda is appointed the new editor of HQ magazine in New York, taking Patsy with her, and Edina offers Catriona the job of her PA, having fired Bubble. Edina, in spite of her failings as a mother, actually loves her daughter as well as her son, Serge. Edwina Margaret Rose Monsoon (portrayed by Jennifer Saunders), an only child, was born on 6 August 1951 in London, although she turns 40 on screen in December 1992 (when Saunders herself was 34). In spite of this, the two do occasionally share family time together like a relatively normal mother and daughter. For her portrayal of Patsy Stone, Lumley was nominated four different times for the BAFTA Award for Best Comedy Performance, winning in 1995. Lulu is the most oft mentioned of Edina's clients, first appearing as herself in the season two story New Best Friend when she runs into Edina in a restaurant and is forced to join her for lunch. Over the course of the series we see Saffron mature from school, through to political activism and becoming an unmarried mother via university, bureaucracy and playwriting. [15], Patsy was born on 30 October, although her actual age is never clearly divulged; she often states herself to be between 39 and 43. Bubble's function in the PR company is simply to make Edina look good by comparison. Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English comedian, screenwriter, singer and actress. In "Menopause", Patsy has to visit the hospital after fracturing her bones doing simple tasks, like snapping her fingers. The impending visit infuriates Patsy, leading to a serious falling out with Edina, who is trying desperately to prepare her home for the minimalist designers. S ixty is the new 40, 90 is the new 70 and Jennifer Saunderss Edina and Joanna Lumleys Patsy are back along with Edinas very elderly mum, played by June Whitfield. Patsy Stone is one of the two main characters from the British television sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, portrayed by actress Joanna Lumley. Although Patsy claims to have been an it girl and in-demand model in 1960s Swinging London, flashbacks reveal she was completely unsuccessful, only obtaining work through latching on to high-profile designers and models and manipulating them into feeling sorry for her. [7] Her addiction to cigarettes is so strong that she carries nicotine patches in the event that she gets into a non-smoking cab, so that she can survive the journey.[24]. [6] Her vanity and obsession with youth leads her to use radical beauty treatments, including sulfuric acid peels, collagen lip injections, and the Botox-like filler Parralox, which freezes wrinkles but paralyses her face.[18][19]. In two episodes ("Door Handle" and "The Last Shout"), it is revealed that Patsy lives in the storeroom above Oddbins, a chain of UK liquor stores. There are only two instances where she does eat: in the episode "New Year's Eve", she painfully chews and swallows a potato crisp, then is visibly shaken from having actually eaten something; and in the Christmas special "Cold Turkey", she renders the entire assembly speechless by demurely asking for a small slice of turkey during Christmas lunch, but chokes it up upon eating it. This cast list of actors from Absolutely Fabulous focuses primarily on the main characters, but there may be a few actors who played smaller roles on Absolutely Fabulous that are on here as well. The creation of Katy Grin was due in part to Jane Horrocks' reluctance to reprise the role of Bubble as the show progressed, turning down the chance to appear in the 1996 special The Last Shout. Image shows left to right: Lucky Flynn (Tim Minchin), Meg Adams (Milly Alcock), Comedy Chronicles: Utterly Buffery - The short but special comic career of Tony Buffery. She states that she actually enjoys the company of the other wives, saying they make her feel very special. [7], The only sibling seen in the series is her older sister Jackie (Kate O'Mara), a former high-class escort whom Patsy worships, despite the fact that Jackie treats her horribly and twice tried to murder her through heroin overdose.[6]. Baroness is a title of nobility given to someone of status in Britain. then this list will help you answer those questions. Get all the latest news and information in your inbox, with our range of email newsletters to meet all interests. 2023 TV GUIDE, A FANDOM COMPANY. You can easily improve your search by specifying the number of letters in the answer. Being a Bond Girl, which Joanna Lumley was, is a nice thing for the tombstone, but when Absolutely Fabulous came calling Lumley, a model and veteran of the '60s institution The Avengers, took her career to a whole new level.On AbFab, which began its long run on British TV in the early '90s, Lumley played a boozy aging model Yes, Princess Leia as Eddie. Her notoriety made her a public figure and a role-model of sorts to a young Cruella. In the earlier series, Patsy works with a fast talking, crass Cockney editor called Magda. She is shown in a flashback in the episode "Magazine" to be eating a plate of food. She has a particular fondness for couture Chanel jackets, which she wears to editorial meetings to intimidate her colleagues. Marshall is an unsuccessful Hollywood producer who later begins pursuing other money-making schemes with his wife, Bo. She also took care of Patsy when she was young and has a relatively positive relationship with her accordingly. Claudia Bing is later managing Lulu's PR, but offers her back to Edina in the episode Menopause, but by the time of the fifth series, she has left again, telling Edina that she "despises" her. In a few episodes, she actually demonstrates the creativity, organizational ability and shrewd business sense that have made her successful. She later claims that their mother actually loved Patsy since, out of all the children she had, she bothered to send Patsy to school (although Patsy points out that by the time she went, she was "bigger than the teacher.") Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Absolutely_Fabulous_characters&oldid=1139527909, Lists of British sitcom television characters, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 15 February 2023, at 16:09. [32] In the 20th anniversary specials and the feature film, Patsy is once again working for a fashion magazine, under the direction of her old boss Magda. In the beginning of the series, she rarely drinks, but by series 4, Sarah carried a flask in her jacket, drinking even while working as the stagehand on Saffron's play. | [22], In "France", she is detained at customs after being found carrying what immigration officers believed to have been cocaine, only to be released when tests show she was cheated and bought talcum powder. Edina refers to her as "Claudia bloody Bing", to which Claudia just smiles. The crossword clue ____ played Bubble in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous with 12 letters was last seen on the September 09, 2018. Saffron later dramatizes the moment when Serge left home in her play "Self Raising Flower" which she staged in the episode A Small Opening, where Serge is portrayed on stage by an actor; the first time the character takes any real form in the series. However, she embraces her son, who finally reveals that he left because of his mother's overbearing attitude and because she burnt his beloved books due to a claimed allergy to books (Patsy says they did it because they were cold). WebAnswers for ___ Whitfield, late actress who played Mother in Absolutely Fabulous (4) crossword clue, 4 letters. She is an outrageous, nymphomaniacal, past-her-prime fashion model and "ex-Bond girl" (although Patsy's only actual "Bond" films were Bond Meets Black Emanuelle, Boldfinger, and The Man with Thunder Balls, Lumley was a genuine Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service) who drinks and smokes to excess. Bubble resigns as Edina's PA on two further occasions: Edina dismisses Bubble for gross incompetence but Bubble suesand winsthe right to keep her job. She is a relentless substance-abuser and, in some later episodes, we see this take its toll. Mother also gets on with both of Edina's ex-husbands fairly well. She mentioned that her mother would have had an abortion, but she mistook her pregnancy for the onset of the menopause. Jackie admits to being 72 years old when she is alone with Patsy. Edina addresses her, usually indirectly, as "Old Woman", and only four times in the series as "Mum". In flashback sequences in the show it appears that Edina intended to have Saffron adopted immediately after her birth (though it is never explained why she changed her mind), and according to Patsy, they tried to abandon her on many occasions. WebBaroness Bomburst (Anna Quayle) is the secondary antagonist, and along with her husband the Baron, they are the evil rulers over the land of Vulgaria in the 1968 film, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". She was portrayed by Sienna Miller, who also portrayed Frankie Burns in 21 Bridges . In spite of her incompetence and regular disrespect, Edina keeps Bubble in her employ - perhaps because she is aesthetically interesting, or perhaps because she makes Edina look good by comparison. Over time, Bubble moves up to the position of Personal Assistant. This precedes a visit from the couple to Edina's home in the present time. Edina is in direct contact with the real Serge at the time of Saffron's wedding, although (off screen) he tells his mother he is unable to make the ceremony, promising to be there for the reception. By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. [10], Patsy claims to have slept with every member of the Rolling Stones, stating that "you didn't have a favourite Stone, you had 'em all. It is obvious that Edina was physically cared for, even over-indulged, as a child, but was shown little emotional concern and rarely disciplined. Unlike Edina, whose dress sense is dictated by fashion rather than what suits her, Patsy is usually seen sporting a more 'classic' style, generally consisting of a designer power suit and her trademark blonde beehive with a fringe, dubbed her 'crutch' by Fleur in the episode "Donkey". Patsy is working for Magda again as a fashion editor at a magazine in the 2016 film version. He is gay and keeps an antique shop with his partner Oliver, a frequent guest in the earlier series. Catriona then joins "Menopausals Anonymous" and attends a meeting held in Edina's house. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Saffron performs nearly all the domestic tasks (even for a brief period when she leaves home), due to her mother's complete inability to look after herself. Upon eating it she starts to choke. However, Patsy claims that Jackie was a socialite in the 60s-70s and knew many celebrities including Marlene Dietrich, Bob Dylan, Jacqueline Kennedy and even introduced her to her second husband. The two appear again in the special "Gay", having returned from London Fashion Week with Patsy. She was 91. Join us in our mission to support and promote British comedy across the decades. Although most people call her Saffron Edina frequently refers to her as "sweetie", "darling", "sweetie-darling" which, it is later revealed, became a habit after she forgot Saffron's name when she was very young. When Edina is the guest on Desert Island Discs in the 1996 special The Last Shout, she chooses 7 of Lulu's songs as her favourites. Horrocks ultimately returned to Absolutely Fabulous when Saunders created Katy Grin for series 4. At a party to launch a new Beatles track in the episode "Schmoozin," Patsy's appearance in the low-budget soft porn movie Booberella is shown to the guests, much to her embarrassment. She carries drugs with her at all times, storing joints in her trademark beehive. Saffron, for her part, passionately wishes to belong to a more normal family, and is once arrested for spying on a random family for her "Observations Diary". However, the details of her job are unspecified and she is demoted to Edina's maid. At one point in the show, Bubble is made editor of Vogue magazine but it is unclear whether she took up the position, eventually returning to Edina's company. The term is the lowest of the five noble classes in the peerage system (a Saffron was also the only one to grieve when her maternal grandfather died, in contrast to the complete indifference of her mother and grandmother. Patsy's colleagues at her original magazine are features editor Catriona (Helen Lederer) and beauty editor Fleur (Harriet Thorpe), who tag along on her various career moves. WebChristopher Malcolm. She and Edina were childhood friends, and since her mother despised and neglected her, she came to rely on the Monsoons for most of her food (though she has been seen eating only twice since 1973), shelter, and comfort. Edina is highly sceptical when her mother shows any signs of forgetfulness or confusion, usually commenting "She knows" with an arched eyebrow. She occasionally reveals a more vulnerable side: in flashbacks to her bleak life with her mother, in her overeager admiration for the awful Jackie, and in those rare moments when Edina temporarily withdraws her friendship. Now she invites you to join her and a famous guest at Table 4 as they share their memories of food. She was nominated for the Academy. Beaming Prince Harry and Meghan enjoy a date night at exclusive $4,200-A-YEAR private members' club in LA - as friend claims they've been left furious over King WebWhich model did Eddy PR? 7. In the series 2 episode "Birth", Patsy again recalls her relationship with her mother, this time recalling the trauma of her birth. Whether this is the real reason or not remains unclear. Justin 8 Episodes 2012. 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