(209) Escaping from Hell to "Be Linda"

On May 30th 2004 I started to watch our video copy of The Exorcist. It reminded me of how Murray Sharp had told me that in the early 1990s he was renting a London shop to an actress called Linda Blair.
I had reasoned that it had to be the girl who played the central character in The Exorcist. That triggered the memory of his having told me that he was also renting another shop to the British actress, Amanda Barrie.
I switched the video off and rewound it at the scene where the words "Help Me" appear on the skin of the character Regan, played by Linda Blair. For she is possessed by a demon.
Later that help does appear when Father Damien Karras, who, after showing some scepticism that this is a genuine case of possession, has been summoned to her bed to witness this manifestation on her skin. He assists with the exorcism to rid her of the demon.

As a consequence of my halting the video, ITV came up on the TV screen.
It was a programme called Hell’s Kitchen - a reality TV thing where some celebrities were spending time under the tutelage of tough top chef, Gordon Ramsay. In similar format to the Big Brother and I’m a celebrity, get me out of here! shows, one of them was voted out by the TV audience, to be followed by another they deemed the least desirable, until the last one left was the winner.

This was the only time that I glimpsed anything of any programme in the Hell’s Kitchen series. (Although I would subsequently glimpse a clip where Barrie got very angry with Ramsay and swore at him and even struck out at him.) It appeared to me that Amanda Barrie had been voted off, perhaps earlier that day, May 30th 2004, or earlier, at any rate.

Then I saw singer Belinda Carlisle being voted off.

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