# R.I.P. The other Fat Lady, Clarissa has died

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 17, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-the-other-fat-lady-clarissa-has-died/683919 "2014-03-17T15:24:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![bunyupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@bunyupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunyupp)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-the-other-fat-lady-clarissa-has-died/683919/1 "2014-03-17T15:24:26Z")

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Clarissa Dickson Wright, one of British TV’s “Two Fat Ladies” has [died.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2582592/BREAKING-Television-chef-Clarissa-Dickson-Wright-died-age-66.html)

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**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-the-other-fat-lady-clarissa-has-died/683919/2 "2014-03-17T15:31:59Z")

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Those two ladies were really fun. And that bike with side-car they would get around on really upped their cool factor.

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-the-other-fat-lady-clarissa-has-died/683919/3 "2014-03-17T15:59:04Z")

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Oh, I am so sorry to hear that. ☹

Clarissa’s full name: Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson-Wright.

(Why would you give someone so many names, I wonder. )

Here is a long, grim, heartbreaking, but riveting [article](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-476204/Clarissa-Dickson-Wright-Confessions-One-Fat-Lady.html)by Clarissa about her life:

She’s been to hell and back.

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**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-the-other-fat-lady-clarissa-has-died/683919/4 "2014-03-17T17:22:29Z")

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That’s a shame; she was quite a character!  
I used to know her slightly a few years ago but lost touch. I last bumped into her at a signing she was doing at the Edinburgh Book Festival a couple of years ago…

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**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-the-other-fat-lady-clarissa-has-died/683919/5 "2014-03-18T12:57:23Z")

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Have just discovered to my surprise that her fellow-Fat Lady (Jennifer Paterson, d. 1999) was a couple of decades older than Clarissa. I harbour mixed feelings about the pair of them – found them at the same time snobbishly irritating; and good fun, with some excellent ideas about food – and politically incorrect to a high degree: sometimes magnificently, sometimes rather nastily. They were colourful characters, that’s for very sure.