Iiiiit’sss tortuure!
Noddy’s Xmas wake-up bawl for wife Suzan
SO here it is, merry Xmas, everybody’s havin’ fun... apart from Noddy Holder’s wife who looks to the future, knowing what’s to come.
For Suzan, the Slade legend’s wife of 18 years, reveals that on the morning of December 25 he will wake her up yelling in her ear: “Iiiiit’sssssssss Chriiiiiistmaaaaasss!”
Suzan, 56, describes how the famous scream from Slade’s biggest hit, Merry Xmas Everybody, the UK’s festive No1 in 1973, is key to the Holder family Christmas.
Loose Women producer turned novelist Suzan, who has been with 76-year-old Noddy for 32 years, said: “Christmas a deux with Noddy Holder has its moments and, yes, he does wake me up on December 25 by bellowing… can you guess? If you think it’s loud on the record, you have no idea.”
In her column in the latest Cheshire Life magazine, Suzan, who has a 27-year-old son Django with Noddy, said: “Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I would end up married to a man as synonymous with Christmas (almost) as much as Santa himself.
“Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody will be 50 years old next year. The track is now as much a part of Christmas as crackers and cranberry sauce.”
But the song can make Christmas shopping a struggle. She said: “Trying to do my Christmas shopping is often a bizarre experience as my husband’s voice follows me everywhere I go.
“I’ll be hunting for something suitable for ‘him indoors’, and there he’ll be blasting from a speaker. It’s very distracting.”
Noddy also struggles to shop in peace, she says, adding: “It’s as if the playlist senses his presence.” She recalled how, when Django was about four, he and his dad were shopping for her gift when “THAT song” came on the Tannoy. She said: “Django decided to sing along while shouting, ‘It’s your song, Daddy! Daddy, it’s YOU!’ Noddy said he had to scarper as Django’s antics began to draw a crowd.”
If you think it’s loud on the record you have no idea
SUZAN HOLDER WIFE OF SLADE LEGEND NODDY