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Breakfast TV is often strange, but Bank Holiday Monday morning's TV was downright surreal. Mr Blobby (remember him?) was on, demonstrating the musical instruments of the orchestra as part of BBC Music Live - in the company of Leonard Slatkin, the gentlemanly American conductor who takes over from Sir Andrew Davis as musical director of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in October. Thankfully, Slatkin did the talking.
Who knows what Slatkin made of his bleeping, buzzing, Pepto- Bismol-coloured sidekick. And who knows what amazing contractual stunts had been pulled to resurrect Noel Edmonds' bizarre creation as part of BBC Music Live. Whatever next? Orville the Duck on Question Time? Presumably this was an attempt to make classical music more appealing to children, but (a) this brain candy had no flavour and (b) how many kids were ever that excited by Blobby anyway? The only Blobby fan I've ever met was a sad individual in his late 30s who also had a penchant for Phil Collins's divorce albums. Anyway, I switched off sharpish.
I checked back in to Music Live later on and there, of course, was Kennedy - whose ubiquity on TV is starting to rival that of Alan Titchmarsh - in the same shirt...