Suzanne Paul made a splash on our TV screens as the Queen of Infomercials in the 1980s. She soon had her own TV show called Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, followed by a range of other popular primetime programmes. Despite breaking a rib in the final episode, Paul won the third season of Dancing with the Stars.

Suzanne Paul made a splash on our TV screens as the Queen of Infomercials in the 1980s. She soon had her own TV show called Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, followed by a range of other popular primetime programmes. Despite breaking a rib in the final episode, Paul won the third season of Dancing with the Stars.

In this ScreenTalk, Paul talks about:

• Transferring her selling skills from malls to infomercials
• Learning to accept having the mickey taken out of her
• Creating the concept for Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
• Running out of celebrities for the show
• Finding out the title of Garage Sale was not literal
• Getting a role on How’s Life? despite being flippant
• How her episode of Intrepid Journeys changed her life
• Believing she was the comic relief on Dancing with the Stars
• Breaking a rib on live television but carrying on with the show
• How a bottle of port lead to the creation of the novelty song and music video The Blue Monkey

This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a Creative Commons licence.

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