Victoria Wood's sibling has guarded his choice to distribute a "warts-and-all" history of his late sister - denying he is selling out the entertainer.
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Victoria Wood's sibling Chris Foote Wood said he can't shroud the realities
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Victoria Wood's sibling has protected his choice to distribute a "warts-and-all" account of his late sister - denying he is double-crossing the entertainer.
The book, which is expected out not long from now, incorporates separates from a diary composed by the combine's late father Stanley Wood.
In the private journal, he scrutinizes her for being overweight, subtle elements her association with an early beau and depicts Wood as being "exceptionally sad and bleak".
Abundantly adored comic and performing artist Wood was savagely private, and the news of her passing in April, at 62 years old from growth, came as a stun to a great many people as she kept her disease out of general society eye.
Her sibling Chris Foote Wood said the book, called Victoria Wood Comedy Genius - Her Life And Work, would give "an interesting understanding into how an overweight, forlorn and miserable young lady defeated early troubles to assemble her immensely fruitful profession".
He told the Press Association: "I have just composed reality.
"Victoria was fat and troubled as a young lady - she said so herself in press interviews and on BBC radio's Desert Island Disks.
"It can't be a selling out to come clean. It would be a jabber to forget Vic's troubled youth. Despite what might be expected, it is all the more amazingly that she conquered these early challenges to manufacture her gigantically effective vocation."
He included: "I am a colossal devotee of Victoria yet I can't conceal the realities."
The book incorporates Wood's first joke and beforehand unpublished family photos of the Acorn Antiques and Dinnerladies star.
Passages from her dad's diary, distributed in the Sunday Mirror, incorporate the claim she had gotten to be "fatter than at any other time and has more spots".
It records how much nourishment she had eaten and said she watched eight hours of TV a day.
Foote Wood, who has raised £20,000 through crowdfunding to erect an existence estimate commemoration of Wood in the focal point of Bury, Lancashire, said all eminences from the book will be given to philanthropies she bolstered.
Wood's kids, Grace and Henry Durham, said they had not been told about the book.
Their representative Neil Reading said: "This is the primary Grace and Henry have found out about Mr Foote Wood's book, in light of Victoria's dad's journals.
"Mr Foote Wood has not reached them to talk about it or make them mindful of his arrangements.
"There will be an official Victoria Wood memoir, which has Grace and Henry's favoring, distributed one year from now."
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Victoria Wood's sibling Chris Foote Wood said he can't shroud the realities
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Victoria Wood's sibling has protected his choice to distribute a "warts-and-all" account of his late sister - denying he is double-crossing the entertainer.
The book, which is expected out not long from now, incorporates separates from a diary composed by the combine's late father Stanley Wood.
In the private journal, he scrutinizes her for being overweight, subtle elements her association with an early beau and depicts Wood as being "exceptionally sad and bleak".
Abundantly adored comic and performing artist Wood was savagely private, and the news of her passing in April, at 62 years old from growth, came as a stun to a great many people as she kept her disease out of general society eye.
Her sibling Chris Foote Wood said the book, called Victoria Wood Comedy Genius - Her Life And Work, would give "an interesting understanding into how an overweight, forlorn and miserable young lady defeated early troubles to assemble her immensely fruitful profession".
He told the Press Association: "I have just composed reality.
"Victoria was fat and troubled as a young lady - she said so herself in press interviews and on BBC radio's Desert Island Disks.
"It can't be a selling out to come clean. It would be a jabber to forget Vic's troubled youth. Despite what might be expected, it is all the more amazingly that she conquered these early challenges to manufacture her gigantically effective vocation."
He included: "I am a colossal devotee of Victoria yet I can't conceal the realities."
The book incorporates Wood's first joke and beforehand unpublished family photos of the Acorn Antiques and Dinnerladies star.
Passages from her dad's diary, distributed in the Sunday Mirror, incorporate the claim she had gotten to be "fatter than at any other time and has more spots".
It records how much nourishment she had eaten and said she watched eight hours of TV a day.
Foote Wood, who has raised £20,000 through crowdfunding to erect an existence estimate commemoration of Wood in the focal point of Bury, Lancashire, said all eminences from the book will be given to philanthropies she bolstered.
Wood's kids, Grace and Henry Durham, said they had not been told about the book.
Their representative Neil Reading said: "This is the primary Grace and Henry have found out about Mr Foote Wood's book, in light of Victoria's dad's journals.
"Mr Foote Wood has not reached them to talk about it or make them mindful of his arrangements.
"There will be an official Victoria Wood memoir, which has Grace and Henry's favoring, distributed one year from now."
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