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Author’s note – so after a short break, decided to resume writing. This story is the long awaited aftermath of Battle of the Decades, and after losing out to her co-star Lucy Fallon in Cakey Skate, and getting a thorough gunging. Tina O’Brien has decided to get her revenge, hoping that Lucy won’t suspect a thing now she has left the cobbles. The story starts in a TV studio in Manchester.
“Hello, and welcome to Everything Saturday Night, the brand new show that combines music, guests, games, and everything you know and love from Saturday night telly. I’m your host for the next six weeks, Paddy McGuinness”.
Tina could here this introduction as she waited backstage, she couldn’t believe that she had managed to get so many people on board for this hoax TV show to set up Lucy Fallon and get her post Battle of the Decades revenge.
Paddy continued, “we’ve got a great line up for you tonight, but more on that later, to kick things off, we’ve got a real treat. Former Coronation Street star Lucy Fallon, who won ITV’s All Star Musicals, is here, and she’s going to sing Don’t Cry for me Argentina, so please give her a warm welcome, ladies and gentlemen, Lucy Fallon”.
Lucy emerged wearing a long red satin gown, which showed off her cleavage, and her long blonde hair was curled and flowing down in front of her left shoulder. She looked stunning and sounded even better as she belted out the classic song in front of the studio audience. Tina was stood listening backstage, she wished she could sing like that.
As the song reached its crescendo, Lucy’s voice sounded better and better. She was really pulling out all the stops, clearly keen to impress any West End producers that might be watching now that she had departed from Coronation Street. Of course, she hadn’t realised, that this wasn’t a real Saturday night show.
As the song finished, Lucy stood centre stage, smiling and waving as she received a well deserved standing ovation. It had to be said that this was an elaborate set up for what was quite a simple revenge plan. Tina had asked that, as the cameras were rolling, the prank could be featured as part of another show instead, and the TV bosses thought this was a great idea.
As Lucy continued to soak up the applause (not knowing that it wouldn’t be the only thing she’d be soaking up that evening), Paddy walked back onto the stage. He walked over to where Lucy was stood and encouraged the audience to give her one more round of applause.
Once he got to Lucy, he gave her a kiss on the cheek, and welcomed her to the show. He proceeded to chat to her about her interest in music, her time on Coronation Street and what she wanted to do now she had left. The interview was very natural and Lucy suspected nothing at all. Tina was still stood backstage, she glanced down at the buckets of gunge around her.
Back on stage, the conversation took more of an unexpected turn, for Lucy at least, when Paddy asked her about her recent appearance on Battle of the Decades.
“Now Lucy, before you head off, there is one other thing I wanted to ask you about”.
“Sure”.
“You recently took part in Battle of the Decades, how was that?”
Lucy was a little surprised by the question. “Erm, yeah, it was great fun, if a little messy, I got off pretty lightly though”.
“You certainly did, I think we’ve got a couple of clips here. Here’s the first”. A VT was played of Lucy being pied by Tina.
“Ooh, look at that pie!”, said Paddy enthusiastically. “Here’s a second clip”. Another VT played, this time of Tina in the gunge tank, firstly being gunged from above, then Lucy throwing a further bucket at her.
“Poor Tina”, said Paddy,
“I know, I really felt for her, she was covered”.
“Well you can’t have felt that bad, you were responsible for half of it. Lucy laughed.
“I guess so”, she said.
“Well, Lucy…Lucy, Lucy, Lucy, there’s something you need to know”. Lucy’s face suddenly changed to a look of concern. “Tonight’s show doesn’t really exist. There is no Everything Saturday Night, and we have another guest here who has helped us organise it all. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Tina O’Brien.
The audience cheered and the doors at the right of the stage opened to reveal Tina O’Brien. She was stood with a beaming smile on her face, and her arms folded. She was wearing a black two piece suit, with leopard print top. Lucy looked shocked to see he former co-star stood there. Tina made her way over to Paddy and Lucy.
Paddy gave Tina a hug and welcomed her to the show.
“Now Tina, perhaps you’d like to tell the audience. and more importantly, Lucy, what you are doing here?”
“Well Paddy, I never quite got chance to get revenge on Lucy for gunging me before she left Corrie, so I wanted to arrange something especially for her, but make sure that everyone sees it”.
Lucy gulped. She stil didn’t quite know what was to come, but had a pretty good idea.
“Yes that’s right folks. And as this is Everything Saturday Night”, Paddy said, “you can’t get more Saturday night than a bit of gunge!”
The crowd cheered and Lucy looked petrified. The doors on the opposite side of the stage opened to reveal a gunge tank, a paddling pool and five buckets. Lucy looked across, then looked at Paddy, them looked down at her dress.
“Ok fine”, she said reluctantly, “but can I at least get changed first, I love this dress”.
“No you can’t!” Tina said firmly, as Paddy ushered the ladies to follow him over to the gunging area, and gesturing towards the paddling pool.
Lucy let out a little whine, kicked off her shoes, and stepped into the paddling pool. A stage hand brought out a wooden stool which was placed behind her and Lucy sat down. She was visibly shaking. She couldn’t quite believe this was happening. She looked at the tank, and then at the five buckets beside the paddling pool, and realised there was no way out of this, and no way she wasn’t going to get completely covered.
Paddy took two steps forward to do a final piece to camera before the events could begin.
“So ladies and gentlemen, the moment we’ve all, especially Tina, been waiting for. Is there anything either of you would like to say before we get going”.
“I am going to get you back for this Tina, this isn’t the last of this!”
“Yeh, whatever Lucy, hope you enjoy your gunging!”
Tina picked up the first bucket, which was full of dark blue gunge and walked round the back of the paddling pool. She gestured to the studio audience, who couldn’t quite believe what was happening, and they started to build up an Oohing noise.
Tina smiled at them, then took one last look at a clean Lucy, before tipping the bucket upright straight over the blonde’s head.
Lucy’s squeal was audible as the torrent of thick blue slime coated her long blonde hair and continued to cascade down onto her red dress.
Tina slammed the first, now empty, bucket onto the floor and hastily picked up a second. This bucket was full to the brim with orange gunge. She tilted it slightly to show the audience, then turned round to tease Lucy. After giving her ex co star a glimpse of what was to come, Tina returned to her position behind Lucy to commence the second gunging.
Once again. Tina executed the gunging quickly, upturning the bucket directly over Lucy’s head. The blonde actress’ face briefly disappeared from view beneath the thick orange gunge that poured down over her. The two colours that had been used so far complimented one another well and Lucy looked extremely messy already.
As Tina putthe second empty bucket down, Paddy had realised he was becoming somewhat mesmerised by the whole thing, and still had some presenting duties to attend to.
“So, two buckets in, how are you finding it so far Lucy?”
Lucy shivered a little, wiped some of the gunge from her face, then folded her arms. “Disgusting”, she replied.
“And how are you finding it Tina?”
“Very liberating Paddy”.
“Well there is still more to come so why don’t you crack on, you’re doing a grand job so far”.
“Thanks Paddy”, said Tina, as she picked up a third bucket. “Oh look Lucy, you’re favourite colour”, teased Tina, as she put her hand into the gunge, and revealed the bright pink goo that would soon be emptied over her former colleague. Taking her position, she decided to go for a slower approach this time, and gently poured the luminous pink substance over Lucy’s head. The pink slime slowly trickled down Lucy’s hair and face and onto her already ruined gown. Now used to the smell and the feel of the gunge, Lucy relaxed a little and was a little more at ease with the slower pour.
Tina tossed the empty bucket aside and rushed to get another. This time he opted for a bucket of yellow slime. “I seem to remember you threw the yellow slime at me didn’t you?” Lucy nodded reluctantly as Tina walked in front of her this time.
Tina slowly pulled the bucket back, rotated round a little, then proceed to throw the sloppy yellow contents straight at Lucy. Immediately coating her in thick yellow gunge, and almost dying the other colours that had already been used. Tina put the bucket down, stepped back admired her handywork, which she demonstrated by rubbing her hands together and the picked up the final bucket, full of traditional green slime.
She went back round the back for this one, and ruthlessly dumped the contents of the bucket on Lucy’s head. Despite this being her fifth gunging, the speed of this one caught Lucy off guard, and she ended up swallowing some of this gunge. She really wasn’t looking happy now.
“Wow! How amazing was that!” Paddy shouted. He really had seen nothing like it before and had the best seat in the house. “Well Lucy, there is just the final part of Tina’s revenge now, if you’d like to slowly and carefully make your way to our gunge tank please?”
Lucy stood up gingerly, and tentatively walked over the the gunge tank. Paddy opened the door for her and gestured for her to sit down. As she walked the short distance, the extent of the coverage of the gunge so far could be seen, and her stunning red gown was now anything but red, ad she certainly didn’t think it looked very stunning, though others in the studio begged to differ.
Lucy took her seat and had a quick glance above her. Tina had made her way to the side of the tank where there was a cord for her to pull. “On the count of three”, said Paddy. The audience commenced the countdown……three…..two….one……
Tina pulled the cord, and instantly Lucy disappeared under a viscous layer of purple and black gunge. Viewers of a certain vintage were reminded of an old clip of Ulrika Johnson being gunged on Noel’s House Party, as the two tone purple and black slop continued to rain down.
Eventually the stream slowed to a halt and Lucy’s ordeal was over. She sat shivering in the tank, barley recognisable due to the amount of gunge that she was now covered in.
Paddy walked round to the front of the tank, and did a final piece to camera, thanking everyone involved and the recording was brought to a close. As the studio audience made their way out, Lucy was helped out of the tank, provided a couple of towels and led backstage, where she was forced to do one final piece to camera.
“I honestly had no idea, I can’t believe I was set up like this. This is war! You haven’t seen the last of this, I will get Tina back one day, but right now I just wanna get cleaned up”: Lucy blew a kiss and smeared some gunge on the camera lens before heading off to a dressing room to clean herself up.