Soo is a British glove puppet and TV character from the show Sooty and first appeared in 1964 as the girlfriend of Sooty.'Sooty is not just black and white' Liverpool ''Echo'' 22 November 1966 p. 2 They still remain boyfriend and girlfriend today. In many episodes they kiss. Soo is a calm and collected female

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who acts as the foil for both Sooty and Sweep. Sometimes, Soo tells people off and is very intelligent, and usually wears a red skirt. In the spin-off series Sooty's Amazing Adventures, Soo wore a blue dress with a yellow flower on it and a white nappy instead.

Voice

The original voice artist and puppeteer for Soo was Harry Corbett's wife, Marjorie Corbett, who voiced Soo until 1980. Brenda Longman took over in 1981. In 2001, when the new owners of Sooty, Hit Entertainment, overhauled the production Sheila Clark became the voice of Soo in the second and third series of '' Sooty'' from 2001 - 2004. Brenda Longman continued to play the character away from the TV series and in 2002 featured as Soo's voice in some McDonald's Happy Meals adverts. When Richard Cadell bought the rights to Sooty, Longman was asked back and her first TV appearance as Soo was when she appeared on ''

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'' in 2007. She has remained since and currently voices her in '' Sooty'' show.

Other appearances

Soo, along with Sooty and Sweep appear in '' The Goodies'' episode '' The Goodies Rule – O.K.?''. In 1991 Soo along with many other puppets appeared in the 1991

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music video ''Helping Hand'' In December 2007 Soo appeared on, and won, a puppet special of ''

'' hosted by

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which was originally broadcast on 28 December 2007 at 6pm on

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, and was the strongest link statistically five times in the game, in Rounds 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7. She raised £11,500 for her chosen charity, the

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, after defeating

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thanks to

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, and when voting, she generally sided with the majority of the other puppets, and was the deciding vote in Round 7, eliminating Nobby the Sheep. She is the second puppet to win ''The Weakest Link'' after Basil Brush. In her appearance on ''The Weakest Link'', it is revealed that she owns a pair of wellingtons and wore them to the show. On 30 September 2008, Brenda Longman, assisted by Soo, appeared on

's '' Bargain Hunt'', buying

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s at

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's Portobello Road Market and then selling them at Bellmans Auction House in Sussex.

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