Rainbow?

[Claire!]

What ever happened to Rainbow? Where did George, Zippie and Bungle go?

 

And did anyone find Bungle? I belived he went missing?

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Bungle got done for road-rage a couple of years ago, I believe.

 

 

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Rainbow's Bungle actor accused of road rage attack

 

The actor who played the cuddly bear Bungle in the children's television show Rainbow has been bound over to keep the peace after an alleged road rage incident.

 

Former actor Stanley Bates, 59, of The Street, Woolpit, near Bury St Edmunds, appeared at St Edmundsbury Magistrates Court facing two charges of assaulting motorist Catherine Marconi.

 

But the charges were dismissed after Bates agreed to be bound over to keep the peace for a year in the sum of £100.

 

Mrs Marconi was grabbed and shaken by Bates, now a self-employed lighting manufacturer, who also swore at her, on May 8 last year the court heard.

 

The incident started when Bates pulled out of a car park in Woolpit, in his Volvo, the court was told.

 

Mrs Marconi stopped to let him reverse out but when he stopped after reversing, she believed it was to let her past and manoeuvred around the front of his car.

 

Bates then shouted abuse at her and she reversed back to exchange words with him before driving off.

 

Paul Forshaw, prosecuting, said Bates followed her and forced her to stop. "He reached through the window, grabbed her arms with his hands and shook her several times.

 

"She tried to prise him off but he would not let go."

 

David Stewart, for Bates, said the actor was ashamed of his behaviour.

 

 

Story filed: 08:49 Saturday 10th March 2001

 

 

[Claire!]

Oh My God! Bungle did that?! Blimey?! My child inhibitions have been shattered? Is George and Zippie ok though?

 

 

[MK James]

 

I bet it was that George driving but he made Bungle take the blame, just like always.

[GHA EFM]

Zippie is in jail, after passing through and setting off one too many metal detectors in American airports.

[Big J R]

No mention of Uncle Geoffrey, then ?

[Claire!]

I think he is a taxi driver now?

[YELLOW]

I think Zippy was on the Chris Moyles Radio One show last year, It is rumoured that he's going to make a comeback with a more adult orientated show!

[Claire!]

Oooooooohh

[Northern Monkey]

Quote:

No mention of Uncle Geoffrey, then ?

he was one of the guests in the Salon had a manicure

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

I met a girl a couple of years ago who had slept with Bungle the previous night.

This was of course the bloke in the Bungle suit and one imagines it was a younger version as they did make a brief comeback.