It's a wonder that I ever appeared on children's television."The revelations about her sex life and long list of lovers shatter that strait-laced reputation.With her no-nonsense school ma'am manner, she became the subject of many a smitten schoolboy crush during her 10-year stint on the children's TV show.When Valerie quit her London flat to live in Dorset in 2005, she said: "I feel I'm leaving not just part of my life but a whole lifetime behind. Looking straight at Peter, Anne asked: "It wasn't because you were trying to have your way with her was it?"In fact, Aunty Val, as she was known to millions of Blue Peter children, scoffed at the prim and proper reputation she is famous for and insisted she wasn't so squeaky clean.She's the seemingly strait-laced star who endured decades of wild speculation about her sexuality.Valerie, who trained at Rada drama school, recalled a steamy session with Albert Finney at a party in Chelsea in the 50s, although she stopped short of full sex. We hope that it will arouse your curiosity, and that it will prompt you to deepen your knowledge of astrology, as well as to visit and use the wide range of free applications at www.astrotheme.com. Valerie Singleton comes forward to announce that she also had a love child with Aspel - former Boyzone star Shane Lynch. In those days we would make a game out of who we believed might "shop around the corner", and relied on the most cryptic, and often unreliable, of clues.Two, she appeared to have no boyfriend.
Scroll down and check out her slim body, short and/or medium dyed red hairstyles & haircuts. "I tended to avoid guys who made my heart flutter, although a couple gave me what I call a BSE - Big Sexual Experience. 5:30PM BST 23 Jun 2008.
I suppose she meant swarthy and masculine.
I thought the rumour was so ludicrous it would die a death. Although not exactly appearing on air in dungarees and bovver boots, she was, well, almost androgynous.Much of what we thought we "knew" about Singleton was guess work, but in the 70s and 80s we could not do as we do today, and rely on magazines such as Heat and OK to confirm or deny our suspicions.
We all thought Joan was a lezzer. We knew very little about her, which, to me, was further evidence that she batted for the other side.With Valerie Singleton's revelation this weekend that she is the "opposite of gay", another lesbian icon bites the dust.
Learn about Valerie Singleton: her birthday, what she did before fame, her family life, fun trivia facts, popularity rankings, and more. Had Singleton announced that she was a lesbian, she would never have had to do it again. 'Oh b*****s. I don’t want to talk about that for God’s sake', exclaimed the grey-haired presenter.
For me it was not so much that they could offer me a blueprint of how one should look and behave, otherwise I would have been walking around looking and acting like Beryl Reid's character in The Killing of Sister George, the first lesbian I ever saw on telly. On her last day at Rada, she enjoyed a "wonderfully smoochy night" with fellow student Albert Finney. She was playing a lesbian, then running home to normality.
When I was already a seasoned lesbian, in my late teens, the rumours began circulating that Singleton was also one, and, to add icing on the cake, had slept with Armatrading.