Now here's a sentence I never imagined I would write; Dan was on EastEnders tonight.
Peter Beale's just turned off the BBC weather forecast, presented by Dan Corbett... who moved to New Zealand in 2011. #EastEnders
— Mark Simpson (@mark_simpson) May 13, 2014Look! There he is!
Not quite sure what the BBC's done to the iPlayer but I can't find a way to link to a specific point in a programme any more. Not that it's really necessary in this case; Dan is on right at the start, immediately after the opening titles.
...your car, you shift it into a different gear, that's what's going to happen. It's all down to the wind, next couple of days that warm southerly wind could push temperatures up across a good part of the British Isles. Then, shift the wind, down comes the cooler air and some of us by the end of the week might be grabbing a couple of extra pullovers. And look at the temperatures, middle twenties for some of us...
At which point Peter Beale rudely turns the telly off.
EastEnders script writers: to add realism to your soap opera, either use a weather forecaster who didn't leave the BBC / the UK almost three years ago or at least have Peter Beale stare in awe at the telly until the forecast had finished in the manner of most normal people viewing one of Dan's broadcasts.
Despite there being a couple of Dan-isms sparkling in that short clip, I can't find any mention of them on this blog. GASP!
UPDATE:
Added a searchbar thing to the blog and found it straight away - it's a forecast from September 2010.
Watch EastEnders on the iPlayer (available until 19th May) and there's a Vine of a small snippet of it, below.
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