Debbie Currie

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Debbie Currie
Born
Deborah Currie

1974 (age 49–50)
Findern, England
Alma mater University of Huddersfield
OccupationJournalist
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Deborah Currie (born 1974) is a British former journalist and a daughter of Edwina Currie. She released a cover version of "You Can Do Magic" by Limmie & Family Cookin', which charted at number 86 on the UK singles chart and was later revealed to be part of an investigation into chart-rigging by The Cook Report .

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Life and career

Deborah Currie [1] was born in 1974. [2] She graduated from Denstone College, and also read English and Communication Arts at the University of Huddersfield, where she worked as a lollipop lady [3] and at George Hotel, Huddersfield. [4] In 1997, Currie covered a version of Limmie & Family Cookin's "You Can Do Magic", with Sinitta providing her vocals. [5] To promote the single, she toured Scotland with pop band The Mojams, [6] claimed that she had enjoyed group sex and lost her virginity at fifteen, [7] told her mother Edwina Currie about the latter in Tesco, [3] and posed with fried eggs on her breasts. [5] Edwina used an interview after her 1997 United Kingdom general election defeat to promote the song. [6]

The song was released on 19 May 1997 [8] on Barry Tomes' Gotham Records and was pulled three days later. [9] Credited to "Mojams featuring Debbie Currie", the song charted at number 86 on the UK singles chart. [10] Later that month, it was revealed that the single was part of a ruse by Roger Cook's The Cook Report to investigate the practice of chart-rigging, [7] that the track had been withdrawn because the programme's budget had run out, [9] and that Currie was in fact a trainee journalist for Central Television [8] who had been chosen for said ruse because of her tabloid history. [3] She later secured an actual recording contract, [1] before moving to the Peak District and taking a job as a gas-meter fitter. In October 2009, she stated that she had become a single mother by choice at age thirty and encouraged having children before finding a partner. [11]

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  1. 1 2 "ELECTION COUNTDOWN : Extra hot Currie may not be so spicy after all". The Independent. 30 March 1997. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  2. ↑ Currie, Edwina (18 September 2012). Edwina Currie: Diaries 1992–1997. Biteback Publishing. p. (Preface). ISBN   978-1-84954-469-6.
  3. 1 2 3 "MUMMY'S GIRL". The Independent. 26 April 1997. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  4. ↑ "Edwina Currie speaks at The George Hotel in Huddersfield". Yorkshire Live. 3 June 2010. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  5. 1 2 Robinson, John (14 January 2006). "Notes of surprise". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  6. 1 2 "This lady won't sing the blues". The Herald. 12 May 1997. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  7. 1 2 "Currie's spicy sauce was bait for Cook's confection". The Independent. 29 May 1997. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  8. 1 2 "What's cookin'?". The Independent. 1 June 1997. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  9. 1 2 "Music-Week-1997-06-07.pdf" (PDF). Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  10. ↑ "MOJAMS FEATURING DEBBIE CURRIE". Official Charts. 31 May 1997. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  11. ↑ "Interviews of the week (Katherine Jenkins, Debbie Currie, James May)". The Times . 25 October 2009. ISSN   0140-0460 . Retrieved 15 April 2024.

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