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Obituary for Jennifer Paterson Newsreader: Jennifer Paterson, star of the cookery programme, 'Two Fat Ladies', has died at the age of 71. She'd been suffering from lung cancer. Our correspondent, Nick Higham looks back at her life. [Cut to clip from 'Two Fat Ladies'] V/O: Stardom came suddenly to Jennifer Paterson, as it came late. She was in her sixties when the BBC paired her with Clarissa Dickson-Wright and the motorcycle sidecar, to create an unlikely hit. [Cut to Clarissa Dickson-Wright] CDW: I think it was one of those gifts from God, as Jennifer used to say. You know, I mean, I think the BBC thought that we would fight, I think that's what the dynamic was going to be, you know, two opinionated women in the same kitchen, it's the Chinese symbol for war, but clearly in some previous life we were best friends, because what you see is what you get, we got on immediately, right from the pilot we got on incredibly well. [Cut to clip from 'Two Fat Ladies'] V/O: The food they cooked was splendidly old-fashioned and politically incorrect, just like them. JP: Now what we want to bake is a 'bouquet garni', or a 'faggot of herbs' as we call it here. V/O: And Jennifer wasn't always fussy about where her ingredients came from. JP: And bay leaves, you can always steal them off people's front doorsteps [CDW laughs]. [Cut to early pictures of Jennifer] V/O: She'd been a famous beauty in her youth, but also a rebel, expelled from school. [Cut to clip of Jennifer in a bar, shaking cocktails]. In later life she was often restless, a frustrated performer [Jennifer starts to sing madly as she shakes cocktails], until television found a way to use her charm, wit, rogueness and sheer joy of life [she continues singing]. [Clip fades out] Transcribed by Tim Pardoe, January 2000 |