9) Denise Van Outen

Welcome again for the second instalment of our newest ‘Top 10 list’. If you were questioning the relevance of this to Light Commercial Vehicles I am sure this week will probably, um, continue to question that fact. Our number 9 in fact added the ‘Van’ to her name, whether or not because she hoped to one day to make this list is still up for speculation.

Number 9 is Essex girl turned TV presenter Denise Van Outen who first hit our screens on everyone’s favourite alternative breakfast show, ‘The Big Breakfast’. Here, she helped wake our nation up alongside the dry-witted Johnny Vaughan in the zaniest breakfast show around. Following that, Van Outen went on to make a successful career as a singer and actress and most recently was a judge on all those Andrew Lloyd Webber shows where people keep singing show tunes until someone "wins". I presume by winning they get to do more singing but who knows? Anyway, Van Outen ended up marrying one of the winners which sounds to me like a strange contractual obligation for her to have signed up to. Also, as a 17-year old she shared a brief romance with one Gary Glitter. The less said about that the better I think we can all agree.

Thank you for reading this latest blog post and I hope/trust/worry that you are enjoying our latest list. If you have thought of any famous ‘Van’s you would like to see grace the list please let us know. Furthermore, I think now maybe time to reveal that Vanessa Feltz will not be making our list. Sorry to all her fan out there (not a typo).

Above: Denise Van Outen

Written by Matt Vanstone