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Britain falls for Little Becky
 By
Trevor O’Sullivan
An impish Dublin nine-year-old famous for her prank phone calls in Ireland
is on the road to superstardom in Britain.
For the past two years Becky Barry has created comedy gold on Dublin Radio
station FM104.
But now her talent has crossed the Irish Sea thanks to legendary British
DJ Johnny Walker.
He said: “Becky is amazing for her age brilliant at phonecall
wind-ups. Lots of people listening to my show loved her Demolition Call.
She had us in stitches.”
While standing in for Terry Wogan on BBC Radio 2’s breakfast show
he played one of her most famous calls every day.
It involved a wind-up call to a demolition company asking for her school
to be blown up with her teachers inside.
Her appearance caused a massively positive response from the 8million
listeners who tuned in.
She has now been signed up by top Irish agent Pat Egan and has landed
a record deal and will have a double CD, featuring party songs and the
best of her prank calls, released this Christmas.
Mum Olive spoke to The Irish Post from the family home in Castleknock
and said that from a very young age Little Becky, as she is known to her
fans, was always performing.
She said: “She was always a little yapper and hyper with bundles
of energy.”
“She was watching television at four or five and she imitated
every person on the show.”
“My daughter is just normal. The attention doesn’t bother
her; she is more interested in being out playing.”
“The thing is she loves what she does. Even when I am washing
her hair in the shower she is trying to talk with the water running down
her face.”
“As long as Becky is happy doing what she does then I am happy”.
“There’s no way she’ll turn into a little diva because
I would soon put her into shape if she tried that.”
Becky herself took time from her busy schedule to chat to the paper and
even had the cheek to suggest that The Irish Post might be her next target
for a prank call.
She said: “I have just come back from Wexford where I had a really
nice holiday.”
“The album I am recording is going well. I have already done two
songs so far and I really enjoyed doing it.”
“I never get nervous making the calls. I don’t really know actually
how I am able to imitate people so easily, it just comes naturally.”
“I see myself as a normal nine-year-old not some mini-celebrity.”
Top-Five Becky Barry wind-ups
- Phones demolition company and demands her school is either destroyed
by a wrecking machine or blown up and as nobody likes the teachers she
wants the act of carnage carried out with them all inside. The company
at the other end of the line crack up with laughter when she asks for
a ‘ballpark figure on the price of the demolition’.
- She winds up Persil care line in a Mafia voice complaining that she
can’t get blood out of a shirt. The woman at the other end of
the line is taken in hook, line and sinker with Becky’s mafia
vernacular such as ‘Joey the Lips he was singing like a canary’
and ‘he’s swimming with the fishes now’.
- Rings Buckingham Palace pretending to be the Queen who lost her key
and demands to be let back in to her royal residence.
- Pranks Dublin Zoo looking to buy an elephant for Christmas and when
the woman at the other end of the line says one wouldn’t fit she
says: “Well mam says dad is as fat as an elephant and he fits in
our house.”
- Becky rings a crane company to lift her lazy dad off his couch.
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