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Live webchat with Doodle Do presenter Chris Corcoran, Friday 10 July, 1-2pm

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HelenMumsnet · 08/07/2009 10:52

Chris Corcoran, presenter of CBeebies' Doodle Do will be joining us for a live webchat on Mumsnet on Friday between 1-2pm.

And, lovely chap that he is, he's recorded a special pre-webchat video for you to watch - see below.

To celebrate Children's Art Week (6-12 July), Chris has joined forces with Haliborange to host a series of exclusive creative master classes for its newly launched Shiny School. Chris has created three imaginative tutorials for Haliborange Shiny School, designed to suit ages 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12 years and needing no specialised or expensive equipment. The site gives parents ideas and tips on how to have fun and learn something new as a family, and also provides nutritional advice.

Chris is happy to answer all your questions (within reason!) during this sponsored chat, and will also be giving some creative inspiration for things to do with your children over the summer holidays.

If you can't make it on the day, please feel free to post your advance questions here.

OP posts:
Washersaurus · 09/07/2009 21:14

My question is.....Am I missing the connection between crafts and nutritional advice?

LivingLaVidaLurker2 · 09/07/2009 21:14

This is what he actually said;

"In an interview on ICWales, the Welsh presenter says of his newly-found status as a sex symbol: ' It?s brilliant ? I mean you can?t fault a load of interest from yummy mummies, can you? But then, you?ve got to put it in some sort of context, haven?t you? Those yummy mummies are home all the time, fairly bored, hormones rushing around them like nothing on earth."

He was making light of his sex-symbol status, rather than making fun of us. He calls us yummy!

(I actually had no idea I was quite so obsessed with the man - this is the most I've posted on any one thread.)

Washersaurus · 09/07/2009 21:18

Hmm and putting all this adulation into perspective, if you line up all the cbeebies presenters there isn't exactly much competition is there

morningpaper · 09/07/2009 21:19

It's Policywonk doing her out-and-about touring: everyone thinks we are yummy rather than wheezing munters

Washersaurus · 09/07/2009 21:24

Oh yes, we are all as beautiful and clever as Policywonk.

Chris, will you take me for a beer sometime please?

morningpaper · 09/07/2009 21:36

Chris you really need a website with your tour dates on so that you can be stalked by middle aged women consolidate your brand with an online presence

COINCIDENTALLY, I do websites for very good price

FenellaFudge · 09/07/2009 21:40

Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!

The manly Chris did NOT say mean and patronising things about us, he was beng selp-depracating.

I'll go look for the quote.

Won't have anyone trying to dampen my ardour

FenellaFudge · 09/07/2009 21:42

being self-deprecating

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FenellaFudge · 09/07/2009 21:46

Right, I see it's already been clarified by Livinglavidaloca.

Good, good.

Now - no more nonsense about Chris Corcoran from Doodle-Do being anything other than fascinated by and captivated by me us.

Dumbledoresgirl · 09/07/2009 21:51

Thanks livinglavida. That was my point. Well made by you.

SoupDragon · 09/07/2009 21:53

Fenella, put your norks away. He's not here til tomorrow and they'll get cold.

SoupDragon · 09/07/2009 21:54

Is the video at the bottom ever coming back??

[plaintive]

Dumbledoresgirl · 09/07/2009 22:02

LOL Soupdragon, it was only about 20 seconds worth of Chris saying hello Mumsnetters, I am coming for a webchat and you can ask me anything except the size of my penis.

FenellaFudge · 09/07/2009 22:02

Soupy, stop looking at my breasts perv.

FenellaFudge · 09/07/2009 22:04

Are we allowed to ask how tall he is?

Chris Corcoran from Doodle-Do - How tall are you?

Washersaurus · 09/07/2009 22:18

Chris, do you actually like children? Or are you just in it for the money and adulation (Its just that I get the impression that Big Cook Ben seriously dislikes little uns and all the cbeebies stuff)

harpsichordcarrier · 09/07/2009 22:23

I don't think that quote is at all patronising, is it? if anything, it is startlingly accurate and prescient

AitchTwoOh · 09/07/2009 22:35

lol harpsi. indeed. [yummy] [bored]

LivingLaVidaLurker2 · 09/07/2009 22:41

Chris from Doodle-Do - do all the male CBeebies presenters fancy Sarah-Jane or is her appeal limited to my DH, who only developed aforementioned interest when he heard of her contortionist past?

Right. I'm off to bed now.

Yurtgirl · 09/07/2009 22:41

I too was convinced he ad-libbed the script depending on what the spiders had to say - plagurised comment from someone (cant remember who!) earlier in the thread

When the spiders were tickling your leg - you were deffo ad libbing - I reckon the spiders know more about you than they let on!!

JackBauerDoodleDoes · 09/07/2009 23:06

I have just realised I am not going to be here tomorrow for the live chat. So if Chris doesn't answer my questions I will be very upset

WriggleJiggle · 09/07/2009 23:10

Q1) Do you currently do any other children's programs?

Q2) Can you take over the bedtime hour slot please.

FenellaFudge · 09/07/2009 23:13

"Q2) Can you take over the bedtime hour slot please"

Snurk

thumbwitch · 09/07/2009 23:49

well THAT's no flippin use - the video's gone!

SolidGoldBrass · 10/07/2009 00:10

What happened to the livechat then? Has the poor bastard fled the country under an assumed name by any chance?