Rustie Lee was a chef on
UK breakfast TV station
TV-AM in the early 80's. She has a very
bubbly personality and her own unique brand of humour. Frequently laughing, she enjoyed her
job, and made others enjoy being around her. The
television studio were heard laughing uncontrollably many times when she was recording her
cookery segment.
After her stint on TV-AM, she joined as a presenter on the second series of "
Game for a Laugh", a
British television show where she joined
Jeremy Beadle,
Martin Daniels,
Lee Peck and
Debbie Rix where they carried on with their "
Candid Camera" style entertainment show, which included
practical jokes and silly
audience participation games. "Game for a Laugh" continued until 1985 and was produced by
London Weekend Television for
ITV.
She then made a
fitness video called "Gentlee Does It!" for people to keep fit with gentle exercise. Lee was a
larger lady from a
Caribbean background.
She has also starred on stage in the
musical, "
The Wiz", and released a record called "
Barbados".
In 1999 she was cast as "Mama Joy", a character in a "
Mad Cows", a
film starring
Joanna Lumley and
Anna Friel.
She also had a small role in a television series called "
Doctors" in 2001, where she played "Joan Preston".
Once when appearing on stage at a
radio road-show in
Nottingham with the late
Kevin Lloyd and
Michelle Collins, she foolishly shouted to the crowd to
donate money to
charity by throwing it onto the stage. The coin throwing got out of hand. Rustie needed to be rescued, however, the
officials didn't realise it as she was still laughing. Only when they heard a
scream from Rustie through her deep
belly laughs, did they come to her aid.
Now living in
Kidderminster,
Worcestershire,
England, she is available for work as a guest speaker and special appearances.
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