Mr Blobby

Mr Blobby is the name of a larger-than-life plastic doll created by British TV presenter Noel Edmonds and used in his entertainment show Noel's House Party. Mr Blobby was a cone-shaped, old pink figure with large, yellow, circular spots.

Biography

For Christmas 1993, producers Paul Shaw and David Rogers released the track Mr Blobby as a single under the name Mr Blobby. This entered the UK singles chart at number three in late November 1993 and reached number one in its second week. The following week Mr Blobby was edged out by Take That and their single Babe, but subsequently left the teen idols of the time behind and returned to the top spot as a Christmas number one hit. In total, the track spent three number one and seven weeks in the top 10 in the UK charts, selling more than a million copies. However, the music channel MTV refused to play the video (which satirised the videos for Stay by Shakespears Sister, Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer and I Can't Dance by Genesis, among others) on its programming.

Two years later, another single was released under the title Christmas in Blobbyland for the Christmas business. But the concept didn't work out anymore and the single flopped.

Mr. Blobby made a guest appearance in Peter Kay's 2005 video for (Is This the Way To) Amarillo, among others.