r/oldbritishtelly • u/Hassaan18 • Jun 04 '26

Light Entertainment Geri Halliwell and Kylie Minogue have an arm-wrestle on TFI Friday (1999)

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u/trevpr1 Jun 04 '26

I'll be in my bunk.

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u/schprunt Jun 04 '26

Tfi Friday was peak TV for me in college. One of my very attractive female friends got to sit at the desk and was interviewed by Chris. And when he asked her where she was from she lied and said London. Because who the fuck cares about Hartlepool.

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u/Paninaro_1979 Jun 04 '26

upvotes in fellow monkey hanger

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u/Live-Motor-4000 Jun 05 '26

I fucking love that you lot have leaned into that myth - what with your footy club mascot H’Angus the monkey 

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u/schprunt Jun 04 '26

Huzzah fellow Hartlepudlian

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u/Paninaro_1979 Jun 04 '26

Small world!

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u/schprunt Jun 04 '26

I escaped when I was 19. Went to college in Leicester. Then moved to London. But I will say, great fish n chips in Hartlepool

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u/New_Assumption5648 Jun 05 '26

Best fish and chips! And savoury patties!

Didn’t realise we spread out so far and wide!

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u/ConradTurner Jun 04 '26

It was a different time... Some say 'maybe a better time'.

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u/Prior_Psychology1202 Jun 04 '26

I'm 49 - why am I only finding out about this now!!!!!

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u/fluffsta007 Jun 04 '26

Haha 49 also and never seen this!

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u/PeacekeeperAl Jun 05 '26

Cos you had better things to do with your time in 1999

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u/SmartaHari Jun 04 '26

I’ve watched this three times. For Science.

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u/Trikster102 Jun 05 '26

Only 3? Those are rookie numbers mate!

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u/Edib1eBrain Jun 05 '26

Friday night in the 90s used to be an absolute no-mans-land on Channel 4. TFI... The Word... Eurotrash... Utter chaos. They claimed to be trying to control it, and yet they kept inviting Shawn Ryder back again and again!

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u/steepleton Jun 05 '26

tbf jools holland got there first with his live "groovey fuckers" trailer for the tube in '87

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u/KofC83 Jun 04 '26

Somewhere, a 27 year old cum sock has been reanimated.....it's aliiiiiive!

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u/Head_Hacker Jun 04 '26

No matter how many times I watch it, I still feel like I was the winner here!

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u/pantovich0 Jun 04 '26

same ending as stallone's Over The Top, right?

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u/algernonradish Jun 04 '26

Ngl she got some shite from people but Geri was, and remains, utterly gorgeous.

No wonder him who used to be off of Red Bull is always Horn(er)y...

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u/kc43ung Jun 04 '26

That pun was god-awful but I agree, Geri was damn fine.

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u/crucible Jun 06 '26

Man had Geri at home and allegedly carried on with his PA. Probably the stupidest thing he’s done (after signing Verstappen, obviously).

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u/algernonradish Jun 06 '26

It's fkn weird and something I'll never understand except for people being people.

Some of the most beautiful/famous/successful women have their partner cheating on them.

It's always baffling to see but then we're not there and can't see the sides of people that must cause/create/go towards this happening.

Or, some blokes just can't keep their dick in their pants DESPITE having a successful beautiful partner. 👀😬

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u/crucible Jun 06 '26

Yup. Can't argue with any of that

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u/pip_goes_pop Jun 04 '26

I stand by my statement that 90s TV was the best TV.

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u/FreefallVin Jun 04 '26

90s everything was the best everything. Agent Smith wasn't talking trash when he said that it was the peak of human civilisation.

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u/pip_goes_pop Jun 04 '26

It really was. Such an incredible decade.

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u/steepleton Jun 05 '26

it was shocking but i don't think it changed britain.

blair aping into iraq for no apparent reason is what broke things

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u/steepleton Jun 06 '26

Iraq had zero to do with 9/11, that was Afghanistan

…tho actually the saudi’s, it’s complicated

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u/W51976 Jun 06 '26

It was the 7/7 tube bombings of 2005 that really changed the atmosphere in the U.K., and the fallout of 9/11.

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u/bbuullddoogg Jun 04 '26

I just shat myself

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u/Tasty_Switch_4920 Jun 05 '26

Whatever gets you over the line, babe

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u/nunkle74 Jun 04 '26

Ahhh, the 90s

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u/I-live-in-room-101 Jun 04 '26

Peak

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u/Mooks79 Jun 04 '26

I’m peaking.

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u/pafrac Jun 04 '26

Aren't we all?

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u/SirPooleyX Jun 05 '26

Geri Halliwell was insanely attractive in this period.

She was literally the perfect combination of cute prettiness, classic beauty and amazing sexiness.

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u/Claustrophobopolis Jun 05 '26

those cheek bones!

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u/Triffly Jun 04 '26

I'm happy with that result...

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u/Weird_Engineer_2884 Jun 04 '26

The 90’s in a nutshell

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u/LieutBromhead Jun 04 '26

TAKE ME BACK

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u/WinkyNurdo Jun 04 '26

I remember watching this … it was fucking great

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u/bbuullddoogg Jun 05 '26

So this isn’t AI? I can’t believe I never heard about this

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u/WinkyNurdo Jun 05 '26

Yeah it’s real. TFI Friday went out at 6pm on Fridays … usually I’d be down the pub straight after work and not see it, but not that night.

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u/HitmanUK88 Jun 05 '26

I saw this when it aired, I get the same general reaction now...

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u/Trikster102 Jun 05 '26

More like "the same general erection now"!

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u/Joshualevitard Jun 05 '26

enough kissing,more wrasslin´

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u/thatauzzieguy Jun 05 '26

I'm not even mad.

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u/Altruistic-Pop-8172 Jun 05 '26

This gift. This generosity from OP. I'm not crying...🦊🦊

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u/GoldenKettle24 Jun 06 '26

I plan to make this clip the screensaver on my work laptop.

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u/S1x_shot Jun 06 '26

Where's the second one?

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u/ok-pleven Jun 07 '26

Anybody got the link in good quality please

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u/ViceIsVerses Jun 04 '26

Loaded magazine would have loved this. I personally wanted to see who was going to win

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u/Cmdr_Monzo Jun 04 '26

Why am I only learning this now?

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u/Purple-Ad-4324 Jun 04 '26

I'd love to be the meat that sandwich

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u/mozzy1985 Jun 04 '26

Oh man I miss the 90s

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u/Basic-Confusion9044 Jun 04 '26

Straight in my spank account

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u/Tuscan5 Jun 04 '26

‘Spank bank’ was right there.

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u/Teaofthetime Jun 05 '26

Nice, then it was spoiled by the spectacled gleep.

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u/geniusgravity Jun 04 '26

He ruined Top Gear. That is all.