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Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's Dirty Secret

Posted Thu 27 Nov 2008 12:39PM GMT by Mitch Carter in The Guestlist
Andrew Lloyd Webber has admitted that he produced Timmy Mallett's 90s pop hit Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, claiming he did it because of a bet with his wife.

Speaking to the Sun, he said: "She bet that me - a ‘pompous' composer - could never produce a pop hit for the summer. It was a ridiculous idea I had to keep Madeleine quiet."

Webber owned up to producing the hit after claims that Mallett didn't sing the lead vocal began to emerge on Wednesday.

The lead vocal was instead sung by schoolteacher Everton Barnes whilst Mallett's vocals were faded into the background because they were so out of tune.



38 Comments

21. Irina -
What a genius composer

22. Irina -
what a genius composer

23. debbie -
Timmy Mallet is great I think he is very funny still and always has been. Here's to the young and the young at heart, there is too many grumpy people around hey every one lighten up including mr grumpy himself, RKS who was fist kicked out of jungle.

24. debbie -
ps nothing at all wrong with itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini. It got to No1. rather have that than some other crap you hear today.

25. Yahoo! Music User -
Why is this news?
Does anybody really care?

26. Yahoo! Music User -
OK, Timmy Mallet IS a twat - no one could argue. But when we were all kids, he was an entertaining twat. Now?... not so sure.
I still enjoy seeing him being twatty on TV once in a while but he MUST realise his hayday is OVER! I wish he would stop being Timmy Mallet for a while.
Who woulda thunk Paul O'Grady would end up being a million times more popular than Lily Savage? It could happen for Mallet .... maybe...
Andrew Lloyd Webber is and always has been a short-arsed mutant-headed rip-off turtle-faced wazzock.
All his best known songs are HEAVILY INSPIRED BY (stolen from) classical composers. Sure he knows how to adapt & recycle the melodies in order to line his own extremely deep pockets but he is still a garden gnome gone wrong!
OFFICIAL VERDICT: Both of them are oxygen thieves.

27. Yahoo! Music User -
i think its a great tune :)

28. Alan M -
Watch Mallet at the times when he is not in apparent twat-mode - he is listening and watching everything around him. He is calculatingly annoying and that is very different from being naturally annoying.

A tortured soul (and he would be if I had my way!) without a doubt. There is definitely something amiss with him, and it is a lot more than just being annoying. His deliberate loud and annoying outbursts are to keep people out not to bring them in.

Lloyd Webber? As with all those who fart about in plays/ballets/musicals and receive public support they live in their own world anyway, but a world that is full of wearers of the Emporer's Clothes. Nobody dare risk shattering that world by saying 'by the way, this is absolutely sh1t' because that means that everything they too do is false and, well, sh1t.

29. KEVIN -
i think he wants to give that fat bloke david one in the jungle

30. Jake -
Re comment 24: True enough I suppose; one has to admit even THAT song was an improvement on the [profane]ing Cheeky Girls. Not going to comment on Lloyd-Webber because I'm biased; an ex-girlfriend I really wish I could forget was a devoted fan of his.

31. Eleanor -
I think timmy is a funny guy but...the song i think is a bit of a waste of time, i mean it isn't gonna make no1.

32. Jason -
the guy is a twat

33. a -
Yes the guy is sphincter-clenchingly annoying, BUT he was a good kids entertainer in his day. Now i beg you all to stop talking about him before he gets loads of publicity and the annoying little twat ends up doing a christmas special or something!

34. keith -
Timmy Mallet is the "Marmite" of society.

35. Scott -
ah yeah!!

36. Yahoo! Music User -
The concept of Andrew lloyd Weber being promoted to the ranks of "pompous composer" and not just writer of commercial, catchy pap is quite ludicrous -In your dreams Andy baby, mind you he's rich enough.
What was the craze during this time for pop songs to have that incessant "woo - yeah, woo -yeah" thing going on all the way through interspersed with the occasional "Aw Yeeah!"? I think S-Express did it first

37. Yahoo! Music User -
Timmy Mallet used to be my paper boy, well i think it was him.... well it was some twat anyway

38. Laura -
thats an interestin fact to know
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