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Dave Tordoff

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Tordoff doesn't have any songs to sing. (Not till a cheesy closing medley, anyway.) Tordoff is also, unlike the others, a raging success: a concreter from Goole who runs a business laser-screeding (which is to say, levelling) floors. Tordoff has a wife, Mandy, to whom he's given jewellery to the value of 11K, and a daughter, Courtney, whose pony is worth 4K. His ranch-style property was recently valued at 427K.

But he hankers after another life: as an after-dinner speaker.

This is the immensely talented Graham Fellows's commitment to a character who is, for all his bumptious excess, an innocent. The laughs are in the details: his over- informativeness about laser-screeding, aided by a deliciously dull corporate video; his action-man hobbies - scuba-diving and quad-biking, "with falconry to be introduced in '07"; most of all, the sheer quality of the acting. Tordoff's uneasy alpha-male movements are a real lesson in physicality.

 


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