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Graham Clifford Goodkind (born 18 January 1966)[ citation needed ] is an English businessman.
Goodkind was born on 18 January 1966[ citation needed ] in Dollis Hill, Willesden,[ citation needed ] to Derek Goodkind,[ citation needed ] a furrier and his wife Pessa.[ citation needed ] Goodkind is an only child.[ citation needed ] He was educated at the University College School, Hampstead [ citation needed ] and then graduated from the London Metropolitan University, where he read Business Studies and Marketing.[ citation needed ]
After graduating, Goodkind took up the offer of work experience at Lynne Franks PR in December 1989.[ citation needed ]. He got a full-time job as a trainee account executive at Lynne Franks PR after a month and in seven years worked his way up to the position of managing director.[ citation needed ]
Goodkind subsequently left to set up an internet venture at the beginning of the dotcom boom called Funmail, later re-branded as another.com.[ citation needed ] It offered free web-based email with many domains. Initially planning on listing on the AIM, [1] the company instead accepted an offer instead from Eden, an investment company, to purchase a 20% stake for £6.5m, valuing the fledgling business at £31.25m. [2] Graham, together with one other founder, sold his stake in the company a year later, before the dotcom bubble burst.[ citation needed ]
In September 2000, Graham founded Frank PR. [3]
Graham is also a board member of Camden Town Unlimited, [4] a business improvement district in Camden.
Absolutely Fabulous is a British television sitcom based on the French and Saunders sketch, "Modern Mother and Daughter", created by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. The show was created and written by Saunders, who also stars as one of the main characters with Joanna Lumley and Julia Sawalha.
Jennifer Jane Saunders is an English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. Saunders originally found attention in the 1980s when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with her best friend and comedy partner, Dawn French. With French, she co-wrote and starred in their eponymous sketch show, French and Saunders, for which they jointly received a BAFTA Fellowship in 2009. Saunders later received acclaim in the 1990s for writing and playing her character Edina Monsoon in her sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
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The first series of the British television sitcom Absolutely Fabulous premiered on BBC Two on 12 November 1992 and concluded on 17 December 1992, consisting of six episodes. The sitcom was created and written by Jennifer Saunders, who starred in the title role of Edina Monsoon, a heavy-drinking, smoking, and drug-abusing PR agent who has dedicated most of her life to looking "fabulous" and desperately attempts to stay young. Edina is nicknamed 'Eddie' by her best friend, Patsy Stone, a magazine editor who constantly takes advantage of Edina by living the life of luxury in Edina's extravagant home. Edina is a twice-divorced mother of two. Her eldest child, a son, Serge, left home many years before in order to escape his mother's clutches. Her long-suffering daughter, Saffron 'Saffy', whom Edina is reliant upon, is a sixth form student and remains at home. The series also includes Edina's sweet-natured-but-slightly-batty mother, whom Edina sees as an interfering burden, and Edina's dim-witted assistant Bubble.
