Pineapple Dance Studios Rocks!

Posted by Lara Masters at 11:06 on 1 Apr 2010

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I haven't written my blog for ages because I'm naughty plus I've been feeling unwell for weeks which is dull and not great blog-writing material. I've had intermittent headaches and nausea, a sore tummy and been listless as a wilting poppy. See? It's hard to make symptoms sound interesting or funny, although I did laugh when I was complaining about feeling rubbish to my good friend who nodded sympathetically then said; "It's not cancer is it?"

I don't think it is but put in a call to my healer in Thailand anyway (controversial) who made me feel much better (I can hear the chorus of disapproving tuts), in fact everything but the tummy-ache has disappeared and I've booked in for a scan and various prodding with my gynae, so, something to look forward to.

But enough about me (those are not words that trip naturally off the keyboard) and on to the crux of this blog; Pineapple Dance Studios - the sexiest reality series ever to hit our screens (if you've just come out of a coma - it's on Sky 1, Sundays 6 p.m., repeated every evening - and I hope all your faculties return soon.)

PDS is like "Fame" but real. Pineapple - founded by MY MUM OBE in 1979 (when I was just a twinkle in my Daddy's eye) is the place to go if you love dance and now it's on TV so everyone can have a Pineapple chunk. The dancers featured and the Pineapple Dance Group are phenomenally talented, and Pineapple's Artistic Director and my Thursday night dinner-date Louie Spence, has become such a Spence-sation everyone wants a bite, or a lick. Kate Moss invited him out clubbing, Robbie Williams announced "Louie is a legend" at his last gig and Kylie tweeted; "All hail Louie!" - that's how totally HUGE he is (although if dimensional conversations crops up, Louie always says he's "a nice size and pretty".)

I'm hardly jealous at all because I love Louie too. Even if he uses my disability to throw people off the best table at the Ivy Club for us ("We need this best table because Debbie's daughter's in a wheelchair you see..." And off they scuttle.) That's Louie, Mum and I misbehaving at the Ivy where you're not allowed to take photos, in above photo.

Now everywhere I go, everyone is like; "OMG have you seen Pineapple Dance Studios?" Some people are so stunned by the Pineapple characters they think it's a mockumetary.

Apart from Louie there's the equally amazing (but in a bad way) Andrew "I've got the "it" factor" Stone (well, maybe if "it" was preceded by two other letters) and Tricia Walsh-Something, who wears a nappy-tard and sings terrible pop songs bemoaning the fact that her geriatric, millionaire husband dumped her ("for no reason") and won't cough up (bad choice of phrase.) 

When I over-hear water-cooler mutterings about the Pineapple pandemic I'm like; "Hello! It's not a mockumentary, it's 100 percent genu-wine, I know, my Mum IS Pineapple!" And everyone's like; "Your Mum is Louie?!" And I'm like; "Shut up! ‘Course not! My Mum is Debbie Moore OBE! You know - the boss of it - and... I'm in it too!" (Blank looks)... "I am!"

It's true, I am in it, you've probably seen me if you're not prone to blinking too often when watching telly.




 

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