Elaine Lordan (Lynne Hobbs, Eastenders)
What are your top 3 artists and albums?
Oh I’m so eclectic to be quite honest with you, I couldn’t name just three, it really is eclectic honestly, it goes from country and western, Robbie Williams, Oasis, The Jam - I love The Jam - Paul Weller, Madness.
What was the last DVD you bought?
I can’t remember – terrible isn’t it?
What’s your favourite musical style? Or that you like singing?
Very very deep voices because I’ve got a very deep voice is the best answer I can give you. Baratone, more or less, it’s deeper than Rod Stewart’s apparently.
Have you started doing lessons?
No, not yet, cos I’ve got wisdom tooth coming through now, impacted, so I’ve got to go and get them taken out – I know pain!
How did you find that out?
Just the pain.
What’s your earliest singing memory?
My earliest singing memory, probably singing to my mum and dad in the kitchen, ‘Seven Lonely Nights Make Seven Lonely Days’.
I don’t remember who it’s by but it was a song my mum used to play and I used to sing it to them in the kitchen. Guess it was like ‘It Never Pays to Make Your Lover Blue’, sort of a country and western style song.
I was about five, six, you know, little precocious child, ‘look at me, look at me!’.
What do you think the audience can expect from you?
A deep voice. Hitting the low notes.
What do you think your soap character would say about you taking part in the show?
She’d laugh, she’d think, ‘are you mad?’.
Did you watch last year’s?
I watched some of it not all of it, I have to be honest.
I thought it was good, yeah, entertaining aren’t they, you know? Watching people get all scared.
Are you going to be nervous?
I’d imagine so yeah.
What do you think friends and family will think of you doing the show?
I think they’ll be pleased actually yeah, they’ll find it funny. They’ll make some banners I’m sure and do some clapping in the audience for me.
They’re not going to boo are they?
What my friends! No they won’t. The audience might, the general audience probably will boo but not my friends.