WV11.co.uk » Wed http://www.wv11.co.uk An award-winning website dedicated to community news and events in and around Wednesfield, Wolverhampton. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:00:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Famous, Rich and Jobless – BBC TV show brings celeb to Wednesfield http://www.wv11.co.uk/2010/03/05/famous-rich-and-jobless-bbc-tv-show-brings-celeb-to-wednesfield/ http://www.wv11.co.uk/2010/03/05/famous-rich-and-jobless-bbc-tv-show-brings-celeb-to-wednesfield/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:00:25 +0000 James http://www.wv11.co.uk/?p=1562 Next week a new BBC TV documentary called ‘Famous, Rich and Jobless’ in which four celebrities learn about the realities of unemployment will feature the Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla Parker Bowles’ niece Emma Parker Bowles behind the bar at the Noah’s Ark pub in Wednesfield.

Celebs Larry Lamb, Diarmuid Gavin, Emma Parker Bowles and Meg Matthews go to live with people who are experiencing life without a job, and without much prospect of one. Their aim is to try and encourage their new friends to go out and find work.

famous_rich_and_joblessPic: BBC.co.uk

According to the Daily Mail, Camilla’s niece Emma Parker Bowles has a less happy stint behind the bar at the Noah’s Ark.

‘Momentarily, Emma seemed all right, then it was all downhill,’ says the show’s Emma Harrison.

Pub landlord Clinton Hawker says: ‘I advertised for a bar worker in the Jobcentre and had 80 people apply. If I’d known she was only going to stay two nights, I would have given the job to one of the 79 people on the dole.’

Part 1 of ‘Famous, Rich and Jobless’ airs on BBC 1 on Tuesday 9th March with part 2 following on Wednesday 10th March.

]]> http://www.wv11.co.uk/2010/03/05/famous-rich-and-jobless-bbc-tv-show-brings-celeb-to-wednesfield/feed/ 0 52.6123962 -2.0836151 Apprentice star to turn on Christmas lights in Wednesfield? http://www.wv11.co.uk/2009/09/23/apprentice-star-to-turn-on-christmas-lights-in-wednesfield/ http://www.wv11.co.uk/2009/09/23/apprentice-star-to-turn-on-christmas-lights-in-wednesfield/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:00:58 +0000 James http://www.wv11.co.uk/?p=595 Admittedly, it’s a little early to be mentioning the ‘C’ word (we’re looking at you and your advent calendars Marks & Spencer!), but a little birdie tells us that Wednesfield native and runner up on BBC TV show The Apprentice Ruth Badger has signed up to turn on the Christmas lights in Wednesfield this year.

Ruth Badger

Since finishing as runner up on the 2006 series of The Apprentice Ruth has presented her own TV show, Badger or Bust, and now has her own consultancy firm, Ruth Badger Consultancy Ltd in Manchester . The former Wodensfield Primary School pupil now looks set to be ‘driving home for Christmas’.

Local officials are pledging to make this year’s Christmas lights turn on bigger and better than ever before – stay tuned for further details very soon.

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