Jenny Eclair

Nov 12, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Jenny Eclair

One Saturday morning in November 2010, I was crying in the bath over the recent death of my friend Angie when my mobile rang. It was my agent Richard, phoning on a weekend, which was weird. ‘Is your passport up to date?’ he asked. ‘They’ve offered you I’m A Celebrity.

Oct 7, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Jenny Eclair

I have a joke in my stand-up routine about how people react when I tell them I used to be anorexic: ‘They look at me as if to say, “Well, I didn’t know you could recover that well.” ’Food and my weight have been a struggle for me for many years. I was naturally greedy as a teenager and, when I was left alone in the house, I was capable of eating one fry-up directly after another. Three was my record – and I only stopped because I’d run out of clean frying pans.

Oct 4, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Jenny Eclair

For a woman who doesn’t pray, clean or partake in a certain well-known sexual shenanigan, I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time these days on my knees. So much so that I have recently had to take two pairs of trousers to the dry cleaners to be patched where they have worn through!Why? Because I spend most of every Tuesday on the floor. Tuesday is “nana day”, when I look after my two-year-old grandson Arlo and operate from his level.

Oct 3, 2024 | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Jenny Eclair

'As hilarious and outrageous as you might expect' Rosie Ramsey 'Funny. Poignant. Fascinating. Just the sort of hilarious, disrespectful, ribald book I love to get stuck into' Jo Brand How did little Jenny Hargreaves become Jenny Eclair and elbow her way into the male dominated world of 1980s stand-up?

Sep 14, 2024 | thisismoney.co.uk | Jo Macfarlane |Jenny Eclair |Andrew Pierce

Three of Britain's biggest booksellers have removed fake showbiz memoirs written by artificial intelligence bots after being alerted to the scam by The Mail on Sunday. The bogus biographies, which were being sold online by Amazon, Waterstones and Foyles, were listed alongside legitimate books despite being littered with bizarre claims and outright lies about a wide range of public figures.