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.

Does anybody really care?
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.
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.
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