Thereza Bazar
Headline:
'I hope that awful vain man swallows a worm and chokes on it': I'm A Celebrity star David Van Day's Dollar bandmate lets rip
Synopsis:
Thereza Bazar is pacing her Sydney sitting room fuming, her slender arms gesticulating wildly.
Her matching Maltese dogs, Pom Pom and Romeo, slink out of the room, safely out of earshot.
The 51-year-old singer is getting on to the subject of David Van Day, her former lover and stage partner, and there is clearly a lot more to come. Van Day, of course, is making a name for himself on I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here!, getting on the wrong side of his fellow contestants by throwing tantrums about the sleeping arrangements and apparently expecting hero worship for enduring a slurry of maggots.
‘He’s a bit Marmitey,’ presenter Declan Donnelly declared last week. ‘People either love him or hate him.’
There is little doubt which side Thereza’s on right now. ‘I really hope he swallows a worm in there and chokes on it,’ she says.
It comes as a shock, given that Thereza has been performing with Van Day on and off for nearly 30 years as the other half of bubble-gum singing duo Dollar.
Her house is even filled with pictures from their glory years.
There are few people who can claim to have seen more of him than Thereza – but it is clear that what she has seen lately is more than enough.
In recent days she has looked on as Van Day has preened himself in the ‘jungle’, a stage set created in a patch of damp rain-forest a few hundred miles north of Sydney.
But while his fellow contestants have been marvelling at Van Day’s impenetrable self-obsession, Thereza has registered no surprise at all, just exasperation. ...
- Publish date:
- 30 November 2008
- Author:
- Lucie Morris
- Source:
- Mail on Sunday
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