Editing Rustie Lee

{{Short description|British-Jamaican chef, actor and musician (born 1949)}}
{{Infobox person
| birth_date   = {{birth date and age|1949|05|22|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Who is Rustie Lee? Meet the cast of The Real Marigold Hotel series two|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/documentaries/2017-03-15/who-is-rustie-lee-meet-the-cast-of-the-real-marigold-hotel-series-two/|date=15 March 2017|website=Radio Times|access-date=8 January 2021}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Portland Parish|Portland]], Jamaica
| occupation   = Television personality, chef, actress, singer, politician
| image = Rustie_Lee.jpg
| party = [[UK Independence Party|UKIP]] (2004–09)
| years_active = 1983–present
| website           = {{URL|rustielee.co.uk}}
}}
'''Rustie Lee''' (born 22 May 1949<ref>{{cite tweet|number=1263784615095029761|user=Rustie_Lee|title=Yes it’s my Birthday 🍰 today many thanks for all the good wishes. And if it’s your Birthday today like ⁦…<!-- full text of tweet that Twitter returned to the bot (excluding links) added by TweetCiteBot. This may be better truncated or may need expanding (TW limits responses to 140 characters) or case changes. --> |date=22 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://companycheck.co.uk/company/07782160/REIT-HEALTHCARE-UK-LIMITED/companies-house-data|title=REIT HEALTHCARE (UK) LIMITED. Free business summary taken from official companies house information. Free alerts. Registered as 07782160}}</ref>) is a British-Jamaican television personality, television chef, actress and singer. She participated on the [[Channel 5 (British TV channel)|Channel 5]] reality-television show ''[[Celebrity Super Spa]]'' in 2013; [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]'s ''[[Who's Doing the Dishes?]]'', hosted by [[Brian McFadden]], in 2016; and ''[[Celebrity Coach Trip]]'' in 2020. Between 2015 and 2017 Rustie also appeared on children's BBC TV programme Twirlywoos.

==Early life==
She attended the girls' [[grammar school]] [[King Edward VI Handsworth School]].<ref>''Sunday Mirror'' 29 August 1993, page 30</ref>

==Broadcasting career==
Lee first came to public attention for her appearances during the 1980s on the morning television station [[TV-am]].<ref name=bbc>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3811841.stm |title=TV chef is UKIP's latest recruit |access-date=2008-01-16 |work=BBC |date=2004-06-16}}</ref> Following her initial successful period as a chef on TV-am in 1983, Lee took over from [[Sarah Kennedy]] on the second incarnation of the [[ITV Network|ITV]] gameshow ''[[Game for a Laugh]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rustie's fit for a shining star turn; Singer, restaurateur and now film star. Life's blooming for Birmingham's Rustie Lee, says Ros Dodd. |first=Ros |last=Dodd |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Rustie's+fit+for+a+shining+star+turn%3B+Singer,+restaurateur+and+now...-a060491703 |newspaper=The Birmingham Post |date= 1999-08-12}}</ref>

In 2004, Lee appeared on [[Sky Witness|Livings]] ''[[I'm Famous and Frightened!]] 2'', a [[reality show]] featuring a number of celebrities staying in a castle over a weekend, taking part in various challenges and looking for [[paranormal]] activity, guided by a [[Mediumship|medium]]. Viewers voted for their favourite star, and the celebrities were voted off one by one. Lee won the series showing a keen interest in the tasks and occasional emotional involvement, giving detailed and varied accounts of how she felt at certain points.

In recent years, she has made occasional appearances on ''[[This Morning (TV programme)|This Morning]], [[The Alan Titchmarsh Show]]'' and ''[[...Cooks!|Daily Cooks/Saturday Cooks]]''. She has also made appearances on ''[[That Antony Cotton Show]], [[The Wright Stuff]]'', ''[[Loose Women]]'', ''[[Would I Lie to You? (British game show)|Would I Lie To You?]]'', and Channel 5's ''[[Big Brother's Bit on the Side]]'', a spin-off chat show for ''[[Big Brother (British TV series)|Big Brother]]''. She also appeared on the [[Channel 5 (British TV channel)|Channel 5]] reality show ''[[Celebrity Super Spa]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.channel5.com/shows/celebrity-super-spa/the-celebrities/rustie-lee |title=Channel 5 – Celebrity Super Spa|access-date=2013-09-08}}</ref>

==Politics==
In 2004, Lee joined the [[UK Independence Party]] (UKIP),<ref name=bbc/> and was adopted as their candidate for the [[Wyre Forest (UK Parliament constituency)|Wyre Forest]] [[constituency]] in the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 general election]]. She also appeared in the party's election broadcast that year.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Wg2kpmKtg|title=Rustie Lee on UKIP's immigration policy |publisher=[[YouTube]] |access-date=2012-07-27}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead YouTube link|date=February 2022}}</ref> On polling day, she came fifth, with 1,074 votes (2.3% of the total).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/654.stm|title=Result: Wyre Forest|publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=2005-05-06 |access-date=2008-04-28}}</ref>

Lee stood for UKIP for the [[2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|2009 European Elections]] in the [[West Midlands (European Parliament constituency)|West Midlands constituency]] in June 2009,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lichfielddc.gov.uk/info/200033/about_councillors_and_becoming_a_councillor/1162/european_election_candidates|title=European Election Candidates, West Midlands|access-date=2013-09-09|archive-date=2013-10-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005002946/http://www.lichfielddc.gov.uk/info/200033/about_councillors_and_becoming_a_councillor/1162/european_election_candidates|url-status=dead}}</ref> but was not elected.

===General election contested===

{| class="wikitable"
! Date of election !! Constituency !! Party !! Votes !! %
|-
| [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005]] || [[Wyre Forest (UK Parliament constituency)|Wyre Forest]]
|| [[United Kingdom Independence Party|UKIP]] || 1,074 || 2.3
|}

==Other activities==
Lee has written several cookbooks, including ''Rustie Lee's Caribbean Cookbook'' (1985)<ref>{{cite book|title=Rustie Lee's Caribbean Cookbook|id= {{ASIN|0004112873|country=uk}}}}</ref> and ''A Taste of the Caribbean'' (2007).<ref>{{cite book|title=Rustie Lee – A Taste of the Caribbean|id= {{ASIN|0954851854|country=uk}}}}</ref>

In 2008, Lee briefly joined the cast of ''[[EastEnders]]'' as [[Gus Smith]]'s aunt [[Opal Smith]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/sunday/2008/02/03/rustie-s-eastenders-role-98487-20307354/|title=Rustie's EastEnders role|publisher=[[Sunday Mirror]]|date=2008-02-03|access-date=2008-02-03|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207165703/http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/sunday/2008/02/03/rustie-s-eastenders-role-98487-20307354/|archive-date=2008-02-07}}</ref> She also appeared briefly in ''[[Peter Kay's Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice]]''. She appeared in the last episode of ''[[Benidorm (British TV series)|Benidorm]]'' Series 6 as ''Queenie''. She also narrated children's stories for BBC Radio in Birmingham.

Lee has recorded as a singer. In 1985, she released the album ''Invitation to Party'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Rustie-Lee-Invitation-To-Party/release/3929246|title=Rustie Lee – Invitation To Party|website=Discogs|year=1985 }}</ref> including her cover versions of "[[Barbados (Typically Tropical song)|Barbados]]"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUbOJqzXQiw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/YUbOJqzXQiw |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|title=Rustie Lee "Barbados"|date=6 January 2011 |via=www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and "[[My Toot Toot]]". In 1994, she released a further single, "You'd Better Phone", paired with a B side cover of Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle) by The Outhere Brothers<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC8A3qG6yIw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/eC8A3qG6yIw |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|title=Rustie Lee – You'd Better Phone|date=16 October 2011 |via=www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref>  She also sang on a number of her appearances on ''[[Big Brother's Bit on the Side]]''.

Lee has appeared in several pantomime productions including ''Jack and the Beanstalk'', ''Aladdin'', ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' and ''Peter Pan'' among others.  In 1988 she appeared in the musical Ain’t Misbehavin’ at the Library Theatre in Manchester alongside disco singer Miquel Brown.

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Title
! Type
! class="unsortable" | Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1983–1989, 1991
|''[[TV-am]]/[[Good Morning Britain (1983 TV programme)|Good Morning Britain 1983]]''
|TV
|Herself
|Chef and Cookery Expert 
|-
|1984–1985
|''[[Game for a Laugh]]''
|TV
|Herself
|Presenter/Host 
|-
|1984
|''[[Punchlines]]''
|TV
|Herself
|2 Episodes
|-
|1986–1989
|''[[Blankety Blank]]'' 
|TV
|Herself
|4 Episodes
|-
|1997
|''[[Harry Hill (TV series)|Harry Hill]]''
|TV
|Herself
|1 Episode 
|-
|1999
|''Mad Cows''
|Film
|Mama Joy
| 
|-
|2001
|''[[Doctors (2000 TV series)|Doctors]]'' 
|TV
|Joan Preston 
|1 Episode, Episode Titled: "Hot Pants"  
|-
|2004
|''[[I'm Famous and Frightened!]]''
|TV
|Herself
|Series 2 Contestant, Winner 
|-
|2005
|''[[The Alan Titchmarsh Show]]''
|TV
|Herself
|1 Episode
|-
|2005
|''[[18 Stone of Idiot]]''
|TV
|Herself
|1 Episode 
|-
|2007
|''[[That Antony Cotton Show]]''
|TV
|Herself
|1 Episode 
|-
|2008 
|''[[The Wright Stuff]]''
|TV
|Herself
|1 Episode, Panelist  
|-
|2008 
|''[[Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway]]''
|TV
|Herself
|1 episode
|-
|2008–2009 
|''[[Loose Women]]''
|TV
|Herself
|3 Episodes 
|-
|2008
|''[[EastEnders]]''
|TV
|Opal
|2 Episodes 
|-
|2008–2009 
|''Mist: Sheepdog Tales''
|TV
|Effie Heifer/Sandra Sow
|3 Episodes 
|-
|2008
|''[[Peter Kay's Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice]]''
|TV
|Herself
|
|-
|2012–2013,2016–
|''[[This Morning (TV programme)|This Morning]]''
|TV
|Herself
|2 Episodes, Chef 
|-
|2012–2014
|''[[Big Brother's Bit on the Side]]''
|TV
|Herself
|Guest, 17 Episodes  
|-
|2013
|''[[Celebrity Big Brother (UK TV series)|Celebrity Big Brother]]''
|TV
|Herself
|Day 8
|-
|2013
|''[[Celebrity Super Spa]]''
|TV
|Herself
|Contestant, 6 Episodes
|-
|2013, 2016
|''[[Pointless Celebrities]]''
|TV
|Herself
|1 Episode, 1980s Special
|-
|2014
|''[[Benidorm (British TV series)|Benidorm]]''
|TV
|Queenie
|1 Episode
|-
|2015
|''[[Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)|Good Morning Britain 2014]]''
|Guest
|Herself
|1 Episode
|-
|2015–
|''Clean and Dirty''
|Herself
|Presenter
|Role
|-
|2016
|''[[Who's Doing the Dishes?]]''
|TV
|Herself Participant
| Series 3 Episode 27
|-
|2017-2019
|''[[Twirlywoos]]''
|TV
|Narrator
|Series 1–3, All Episodes
|-
|2017
|''[[The Real Marigold Hotel]]''
|TV
|Herself
|Series 2, 4 Episodes
|-
|2019
|''[[Tipping Point: Lucky Stars]]''
|TV
|Herself
|Series 6, 1 Episode, Christmas Special
|-
|2019
|''[[Tenable All Stars]]'' (Christmas Special)
|TV
|Herself
|1 Episode, Christmas Special
|-
|2020
|''[[Celebrity Coach Trip]]''
|TV
|Herself
|7 Episodes
|-
|2021
|''[[Celebrity Gogglebox]]''
|TV
|Herself
|Series 3 Episode 9 (Black To Front Special)
|-
|2022
|''[[Fame in the Family]]''
|TV
|Herself
|Celebrity dinner party host
|-
|2023
|''The 1970s Dinner Party''
|TV
|Herself
|Chef
|-
|2024
|''[[Michael McIntyre's Big Show|Michael Mcintyre's Big Show]]''
|TV
|Herself
|Series 7 Episode 4
|-
|2024
|''[[Would I Lie to You? (British game show)|Would I Lie to You?]]''
|TV
|Herself
|Christmas Special
|}

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0498179|Rustie Lee}}

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