Athlete Fatima Whitbread turned down cameo in 'Octopussy'

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• NicNac Administrator, Moderator

  November 2011 Posts: 7,582

  It' s hard to know how to respond to this news. She's quite a....woman @-)
• actonsteve

  November 2011 Posts: 1,492

  I dont remember a lady Fatima in the film unless it was a role written for her.
  
  I have an uneasy feeling that they probably wanted her as a circus act, bending bars and all that. Riding the floats on the circus parade.
• NicNac Administrator, Moderator

  November 2011 Posts: 7,582

  actonsteve wrote:

  I dont remember a lady Fatima in the film unless it was a role written for her.
  
  I have an uneasy feeling that they probably wanted her as a circus act, bending bars and all that. Riding the floats on the circus parade.

  
  You may have nailed it there actonsteve. I was unsure myself but it makes sense to think she may have sat on Bond when he was fighting his way to the bomb dressed as a clown.
• LeChiffre

  November 2011 Posts: 1,548

  Well, British show jumper Oliver Skeete turned up in Die Another Day so it's not a unique scenario. Let's just hope ex footballerVinnie Jones doesn't appear as a monosyllabic future henchman!
• Samuel001 Moderator

  November 2011 Posts: 13,355

  I'm not surprised she's wishing she took this offer up. What a thing to not be part of.
• JWESTBROOK

  November 2011 edited November 2011 Posts: 5,745

  I'm not convinced she's a celebrity, or even a real woman!
  
  
• Risico007

  November 2011 Posts: 9,847

  JWESTBROOK wrote:

  I'm not convinced she's a celebrity, or even a real woman!
  
  

  I feel the same way about grace jones
  
• thelivingroyale

  November 2011 Posts: 12,837

  JWESTBROOK wrote:

  I'm not convinced she's a celebrity, or even a real woman!
  
  

  
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  and ITV seem to have forgotten that in order to count as a celebrity people need to know who you are
• St_George Shuttling Drax's lovelies to the space doughnut - happy 40th, MR!

  November 2011 edited November 2011 Posts: 1,699

  Fatima Whitbread was certainly a celebrity back in the day - she won an Olympic medal in the javelin for Britain, didn't she? She and fellow UK javelinist Tessa Sanderson were big rivals from what I recall...
  
  
• kougerfreddie

  December 2011 Posts: 2

  Fatima Whitbread should have been a cricketer - she is the biggest spinner of reality - bar none - she does have dominance issues of a seriously dangerous kind and now it has come unstuck for her. She keeps no friends because anyone once stung by her - never goes back. She does fight dirty/filthy as even her husband discovered. His mates in the real 'know' have nicknamed the cockroach Andy after him - as returned to get right up her nose. He was just a stepping stone for her. She must be obeyed. As to Octopussy .... as IF ..... she was once on steroids. That won the Gold.
• kougerfreddie

  December 2011 Posts: 2

  BTW Guys - Lady Fatima was in NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN - Sean Connery 1983 - if youo check the records - Andy Norman was a happily married man then still having a family with his Wife - so Whitbread spins again - caught by her own tongue - again - she never gives up so I suppose that does show determination of a kind. She is no Bond material as an intelligent, cool, lady ... she doesn't get it and never did... there was NO Lady Fatima in Octopussy - also 1983 ... and unless she was involved in a secret affair with Andy Norman 1983 - she didn't marry him until many long years later ... another oops! for Fatima - what's new??????????????
• MajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator

  December 2011 edited December 2011 Posts: 13,978

  Did I read that right, she was going to have sat on Bond? :-O Well, i've oftern thought Moore was creaky, but that's taking the p... ;)
• QBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.

  December 2011 Posts: 14,585

  Deep down, I always knew there was something missing from Octopussy. Now I know!
• solace

  December 2011 Posts: 4

  I think she would have kicked Rogers ass.
• QBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.

  December 2011 Posts: 14,585

  ^ Even in LALD.