'Oooh, you amaze me'

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Matthew Norman
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 29 March 2000 12.43 BST

It's great to see Frank Dobson among the Guardian comment writers, but this is only one of his countless media engagements. On Friday Dobbo granted an interview to a woman from the Asian channel Zee TV.

Everything went fine, until just after ending the interview, the reporter seemed to remember something. Oh, she said, before we go would you mind looking into the camera and saying "Oooh, you amaze me!"

Dobbo affected bafflement at this. You know, said the reporter, your catchphrase. Still feigning confusion, Dobbo nonetheless pointed his beard at the camera and delivered it with gusto, just as Bruce Forsyth would have done in the same boat. What a pro he is.

Amid mounting fears that dear old Dobbo may be on the verge of relapsing into moroseness, we have sent two Oooh You Amaze Me! T-shirts to his campaign HQ, with our compliments.

Fingers crossed these will keep him and Mrs Dobbo smiling until May.

• The shirts are also available to readers in two sizes, Ken (L) and Frank (XL), for £7.50.

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