Suzanne Paul made a splash on New Zealand TV screens as the Queen of Infomercials in the 1980s. She soon had her own TV show called Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, plus other popular prime time programmes. Despite breaking a rib in the final episode, Paul won the third season of Dancing with the Stars.
In this ScreenTalk interview, Paul talks about:
- Transferring her selling skills from malls to infomercials
- Learning to accept having the mickey taken out of her
- Creating the concept for Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
- Running out of celebrities for the show
- Discovering that the title of Garage Sale wasn't literal
- Getting a role on How’s Life? despite being flippant
- How her episode of Intrepid Journeys changed her life
- Believing she was the comic relief on Dancing with the Stars
- Breaking a rib on live television but carrying on with the show
- How a bottle of port lead to her novelty song and music video Blue Monkey
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Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside
I said to them 'I know I won't be the best dancer but I have a theory that if I just go out there and dance with all my heart and soul, and give it everything that I've got, the people will get behind me and they'll really want me to win — because they can see that I'm very passionate about it.
– Suzanne Paul on her appearance in Dancing With The Stars