Sticky Vicky

CaseOfAce

I've always assumed she was a made up character mentioned in the Benidorm ITV show but turns out there was such a person who has now passed away...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-67564925

What a way to earn a living?

BillDL

I hadn't a clue who was being referred to, but I had a light bulb moment when I started reading the article.

the_jaffa

BillDL said:

I hadn't a clue who was being referred to, but I had a light bulb moment when I started reading the article.

Did it just pop out to you?

Kilgore

Watt a legend, It gives me a warm glow remembering her act. I was incandescent with rage when she had to change to LED's. It was never the same. 

BillDL

I believe she ping-pinged to and fro between tungsten and LED for a while.  I think I read once that she would sit near an amp with her legs open and a mic in the proximity and get a good approximation of a really cavernous hall reverb.

Kilgore

BillDL said:

I believe she ping-pinged to and fro between tungsten and LED for a while.  I think I read once that she would sit near an amp with her legs open and a mic in the proximity and get a good approximation of a really cavernous hall reverb.

A consummate professional who never dropped the ball and always dropped the ball.

Emp_Fab

I spent an amusing hour trying to get ChatGPT to tell me what her act involved.  It resisted admirably from going into any detail whatsoever until I forced it to agree with my accurate statement of what she did for a living.   Best evening ever.

JAYJO

Uncle Festers  still in there!!! 

nero1701

Wonder what she done with the spent balls

Dominic

I suspected she was some Sangria soaked  East Ender that washed up on Benidorm beach in the early 70s but she was a local Spanish woman much to my surprise ........
Quite unpleasant occupation.

BillDL

Nah, the guy gathering up the ping-pong balls and light bulbs and washing them for re-use had a marginally more unpleasant job.

thermionic

I've just watched a video of her on YouTube. I knew these things existed but not on YouTube, Jesus H Christ.

BillDL

One thing I've always wondered about people that do all kinds of strange things with different parts of their bodies, whether it is for some wacky Guinness Book of Records challenge or for public amusement and entertainment, is how you discover that you have the ability and aptitude to do it.  Does somebody just wake up one morning and wonder whether she could shove a No. 8 ball into one of her body cavities and propel it 15 feet into a top hat?

thermionic

I watched the video - I'm pretty sure that at least one of the tricks is pure sleight of hand.

Interestingly, I recently watched a film called It Snows in Benidorm where Timothy Spall's character is enamoured with a similar character, although she was presented as much younger and classier. In hindsight, it is clear that the character was based on Sticky Vicky. It also has similarities with Ursula Martinez, whose act is presented a lot more like a magic illusion.