- Blue Tulip Rose Read
Blue Tulip Rose Read was the infamous
stalker of British TV and radio personalityMike Read . She was featured in a film made byJaine Green for Channel Four in 1996 entitled "I'm Your Number One Fan." The film was run as part of Channel Four's "Fame Factor" season, which examined the dark side of fame [Citation
last =Manuel
first =Rob
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title =Bit Torrent TV
journal =B3TA Newsletter
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issue =173
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date =2005-03-11
year =2005
url =http://www.b3ta.com/newsletter/issue173/
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id = ] .Rose was one of the most candid interviewees in the film. She was filmed as she travelled to the offices of Classic FM, and as she wrote "love letters" to the Read [Citation
last =Lewis-Smith
first =Victor
author-link =Victor Lewis-Smith
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title =I'm Your Number One Fan
newspaper =Evening Standard
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year =1996
date =1996-10-07
url =http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mbishop/News/funny/vls-fan.htm ] . The film states that Rose had been writing obscene and threatening letters to Read for many years.Rose was from Welwyn Garden City and her original name was Carol Ballard [Citation
last =Thynne
first =Jane
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title =TV gives soapbox to man who haunts Princess of Wales
newspaper =Daily Telegraph
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year =1996
date =1996-09-19
url =http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/09/19/nstalk19.html ] . At some point, she became convinced that she was married to Read, spurring the change in surname.Her activities since the making of the film are unknown. On May 3, 2008,the Sun reported that she would appear in "Britain's Got Talent." She was eliminated in the initial round. There are reportsFact|date=July 2008 that she has changed her name again, to Blue Tulip Rose Edelweiss Warby. The UK TV seriesThe League of Gentlemen made frequent reference to Rose in their first series by putting a quote from the documentary in the background of many episodes [cite web
last =Witte
first =Laura
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title =The League of Gentlemen: Signs
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publisher =Pandemonium Carnival
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url =http://www.lunacynet.com/league/signs.html
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accessdate =2007-05-10 ] .References
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