Gogglebox favourite Lee Riley took to Instagram today (Friday 26 November) to share a throwback photo of his Channel 4 co-star Jenny Newby on their joint-profile.
Jenny, 65, looked unrecognisable as a brunette sporting a medium-sized perm with large, statement black earrings and shoulder pad fashion from 40 years ago.
Co-star and best friend Lee Riley wrote: “She’s going to go mad at me […] Jenny with the 80’s perm x”.
The post gained nearly 29,000 likes with fans commenting: “Hey, we all did it. If you didn’t have a perm in the 80’s were you even there?”
Another fan commented: “She looks fab!!… bet you had one too Lee!!”
(Image: jennyandlee_gogglebox/instagram)
One fan said: “Jenny aka Barbara Streisand.”
The pair have 615,000 Instagram followers for their official account which they regularly update and use to interact with their viewers.
Jenny and Lee have been best friends for over two decades, and are often spotted together – as well as with Lee’s partner of 26 years, Steve, who occasionally pops up on their feed.
Meanwhile Jenny usually lives with her husband, Ray, who has never appeared on the show.
The Gogglebox co-stars became friends when Jenny was the landlady of The Crown Inn pub in Paull, and Lee was a regular.
Jenny was scouted for Gogglebox at Beverley Ladies Day after telling a Channel 4 researcher how much she enjoyed the show.
(Image: Channel4.com)
She told Hull Daily Mail in 2019: “I was a big fan of it right from the beginning.
“If my friends were going out, I’d say, ‘I can’t, I’ve got to stay in and watch Gogglebox. I loved it. So to be on it is amazing. I’d never have thought it would happen in a million years.”
Lee initially said no when he was approached.
The 52-year-old said: “I’d never heard of Gogglebox to be honest and I didn’t want to do it.
“I’d say it took her about an hour and a half to talk me into it – about as long as it took me to get me out of bed.”
Jenny also admitted that she doesn’t watch herself with Lee on the late-night reality show.
“To begin with I didn’t like watching myself in case I saw something I did that I didn’t like and tried to change it.
“I thought, if I tried to stop doing something, that wouldn’t be the real me. I want it to be natural as possible.”
Gogglebox continues tonight at 9pm on Channel 4.
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
