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Who are The Krankies, how did they become famous and what is their new BBC show The Real Marigold On Tour about?
SHOWBIZ legends The Krankies return to TV this week for a new show on the BBC.
The pantomime favourites Ian and Janette Tough, both 71, are set to star in The Real Marigold On Tour.
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The revealed to The Scottish Sun all about the highs and lows of their adventure through Mexico for the show.
It sees them sharing hotels with scorpions and getting kinky offers from their hosts.
Here's everything you need to know about The Krankies.
Who are they?
The Krankies are made up of husband and wife Janette and Ian Tough.
The Scots comedy duo found fame in the 1970s and have gone on to carve a successful career in music, TV and panto.
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Janette was born in Queenzieburn, near Kilsyth, and Ian is from Glasgow.
The pair met in 1967 at Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre, aged 18.
Janette was performing as a dancer while Ian worked as an electrician. Ian would throw sweets at Janette from stage to get her attention.
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The couple got married in 1
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The Krankies are a Scottish duo that enjoyed success as a cabaret act in the 1970s and on television in the 1980s. They entered semi-retirement in 1991, but they have regularly appeared in pantomime since. They are Janette Tough (born May 16, 1947) who at only 4'5" played schoolboy Wee Jimmy Krankie; and her husband Ian Tough (born March 26, 1947), who played Jimmy's father.
They are probably best remembered as presenters/performers in the BBC's stalwart children's entertainment series Crackerjack.
In early 1981 they released a single named Fan'dabi'dozi, their catchphrase. It stalled at number 46. They had three television series — The Krankies Klub (1982), The Krankies Elektronik Komik (1985) and Krankies TV for Border Television in the early 1990s.
In 2004, Janette was badly injured in a fall during a performance in the pantomime "Jack and the Beanstalk", but has since made a full recovery.
Credit: wikipedia
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The Krankies: The odd couple
So, off to meet Mr and Mrs Tough, or even Ian and Janette, but especially and for evermore The Krankies. "Fan dabi dozi!" - if you'll excuse my rather over-excited Krankie-speak, which some of you won't, but what do I care? ("Fan dabi dozi, fan double dabi dozi! Anyone seen me mam?")
They live on the south Devon coast, in Torquay. Torquay seems nice, I say in my banal and ingratiating way when I arrive at their house, a 1980s Spanish-style villa set high in the hills. "Aye," says Janette, who will always be more Glasgow than anywhere else, "it is, except on a Saturday night when the stag parties are out urinating on Debenhams." Fan dabi... nasty?
The house is white on the outside and very beige on the inside: beige walls, beige carpets, everything a furiously neutral beige. There's a Through the Keyhole souvenir key on the beige hearth and a china figurine of Pinocchio - Pinocchio is their favourite panto, it turns out - on the mantelpiece. But that's about it on the memento front. What did I expect? Cheesy summer-season posters all over the sho
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