Victoria Wood's sibling has shielded his choice to distribute a "warts-and-all" life story of his late sister - denying he is selling out the comic.
The book, which is expected out in the not so distant future, incorporates extricates from a diary composed by the combine's late father Stanley Wood.
In the private journal, he censures her for being overweight, points of interest her association with an early beau and portrays Wood as being "exceptionally gloomy and dour".
Victoria Wood's sibling Chris Foote Wood said he can't shroud the certainties
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Victoria Wood's sibling Chris Foote Wood said he can't shroud the certainties
Greatly adored humorist and on-screen character Wood was savagely private, and the news of her demise in April, at 62 years old from disease, came as a stun to a great many people as she kept her ailment out of general society eye.
Her sibling Chris Foote Wood said the book, called Victoria Wood Comedy Genius - Her Life And Work, would give "a one of a kind understanding into how an overweight, forlorn and despondent young lady defeated early challenges to construct her massively effective profession".
He told the Press Association: "I have just composed reality.
"Victoria was fat and miserable 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 rubbish to forget Vic's troubled adolescence. In actuality, it is all the more surprisingly that she conquered these early troubles to manufacture her enormously effective profession."
He included: "I am an enormous devotee of Victoria however I can't shroud the actualities."
The book incorporates Wood's first joke and already unpublished family photos of the Acorn Antiques and Dinnerladies star.
Sections from her dad's diary, distributed in the Sunday Mirror, incorporate the claim she had ended up "fatter than any time in recent memory and has more spots".
It records how much sustenance 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 measure commemoration of Wood in the focal point of Bury, Lancashire, said all eminences from the book will be given to foundations 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 principal Grace and Henry have found out about Mr Foote Wood's book, in view of Victoria's dad's journals.
"Mr Foote Wood has not reached them to examine it or make them mindful of his arrangements.
"There will be an official Victoria Wood life story, which has Grace and Henry's favoring, distributed one year from now."
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The book, which is expected out in the not so distant future, incorporates extricates from a diary composed by the combine's late father Stanley Wood.
In the private journal, he censures her for being overweight, points of interest her association with an early beau and portrays Wood as being "exceptionally gloomy and dour".
Victoria Wood's sibling Chris Foote Wood said he can't shroud the certainties
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Victoria Wood's sibling Chris Foote Wood said he can't shroud the certainties
Greatly adored humorist and on-screen character Wood was savagely private, and the news of her demise in April, at 62 years old from disease, came as a stun to a great many people as she kept her ailment out of general society eye.
Her sibling Chris Foote Wood said the book, called Victoria Wood Comedy Genius - Her Life And Work, would give "a one of a kind understanding into how an overweight, forlorn and despondent young lady defeated early challenges to construct her massively effective profession".
He told the Press Association: "I have just composed reality.
"Victoria was fat and miserable 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 rubbish to forget Vic's troubled adolescence. In actuality, it is all the more surprisingly that she conquered these early troubles to manufacture her enormously effective profession."
He included: "I am an enormous devotee of Victoria however I can't shroud the actualities."
The book incorporates Wood's first joke and already unpublished family photos of the Acorn Antiques and Dinnerladies star.
Sections from her dad's diary, distributed in the Sunday Mirror, incorporate the claim she had ended up "fatter than any time in recent memory and has more spots".
It records how much sustenance 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 measure commemoration of Wood in the focal point of Bury, Lancashire, said all eminences from the book will be given to foundations 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 principal Grace and Henry have found out about Mr Foote Wood's book, in view of Victoria's dad's journals.
"Mr Foote Wood has not reached them to examine it or make them mindful of his arrangements.
"There will be an official Victoria Wood life story, which has Grace and Henry's favoring, distributed one year from now."
Perused more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/dad/article-3818199/Victoria-Woods-sibling protects book-marks humorist fat-troubled girl.html#ixzz4S8rQSBuI
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