There's somebody at the door! Grotbags actress Carol Lee Scott - from Emu to tragic death
13.08.2023 - 06:57
/ ok.co.uk
It was the kids' TV catchphrase copied by millions of children in the 1980s, as they excitedly chanted it whenever someone knocked as they came to visit. "There's somebody at the door! There's somebody at the door!" And with it came a larger-than-life green witch, a strange pink windmill full of children and the infamous TV puppet-and-master duo, Rod Hull and Emu.The TV show the catchphrase came from is ITV's Emu's World, while the strange green witch in the cape who we loved to hate is Grotbags – played by actress by Carol Lee Scott. She lived in a castle, Gloomy Fortress, and haplessly tried to use her powers to control the children, also keeping a servant called Croc in line by hitting him with her bazazzer, an umbrella-shaped stick with a pointing finger on the end.
But what became of the actress behind such an iconic character? To find that out, we have to go back to the beginning. Carol, who was born in Somerset in 1942, began her career after moving to London, singing in local pubs while working during the day in a record store. She then joined the holiday camp Pontins, performing for 19 years while also playing working men's clubs.
A summer season in Cleethorpes led to a meeting with Rod Hull, who's been approached to make a new TV show. Together they created Carol's Grotbags character, with the actress and singer first appearing on TV in 1982, alongside the cowardly crocodile, a mechanical butler and a fawning manservant in Emu's World. It ran for several series.
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