Catherine Zeta-Jones in Rutles film shock!? No, it's Cleo Rocos! (confirmed)

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The bouffant raven bopping atop the wall (red sweater) during "Get Up and Go", at the close of All You Need is Cash.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 27 August 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Is she old enough to be that person?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah. Far be it for me to say she's lied about her birthday, but, if she hasn't, she'd be ten, and that can't be her. If she has, it definitely could be. Striking resemblance tho.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 27 August 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i hear she's secretly immortal. she bathes in the blood of virgins to accomplish this.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 29 August 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Ha, I saw this last night, and thought the exact same thing. Including "she'd have been around ten though"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:43 (twenty years ago)

this movie disappointed me.

― punis (punis), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

were you looking for CZJ?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:04 (twenty years ago)

I AM ALWAYS LOOKING FOR CZJ.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Just completed my annual watching of "The Rutles" and saw, for the first time, something that left me "shocked and stunned". Please, anyone who has a pause or freeze-frame control on their VHS or DVD remotes, would you confirm my suspicions. In the scene where The Rutles play "Get Up and Go", parodying the "Get Back" rooftop concert from "Let it Be", there are three or four young girls swaying to the music and clapping their hands, sitting on a wall in the background. One of them, furthest to the left, wearing a red turtleneck sweater, looks exactly like Catherine Zeta-Jones. The film was shot in 1978, and she was born (supposedly) in 1969, which would have made her about 10 years old at best...although the girl in the red sweater looks about 14. Maybe Zeta-Jones was mature for her age...a very real possibility or maybe it's simply not her. The hair, eyes and mouth are identical. Mere coincidence or was it really her? I have contacted International Casting Management, her agency, to confirm as well as Eric Idle himself. If this mystery is ever solved, I shall return.

Best regards,

Billy McEvoy

― Billy McEvoy, Thursday, 1 June 2006 20:41 (twenty years ago)

by far, the greatest obliviousness to the content of an existing thread and the restating of the subject of that thread that i have ever seen. well done!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

I guess thesedays it would be easy to take a snapshot of the frame in question and stick it 'ere. One of these days, I'll get round to it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:48 (twenty years ago)

I was watching the Rutles and I saw a girl who looks like Catherine Zeta Jones, only I don't think she was that old. can someone check into it? I think it was her.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v507/dave225/rutles.jpg

(feh)

― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Friday, 2 June 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Well how about these shots then?

ihttp://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/zeta.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/zeta2.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

It's definitely not Catherine Zeta Jones because it definitely is Cleo Rocos

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

I hope that's cleared that one up!

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

She'd have been 16 then. So, quite possibly.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'd put money on it. I'm pretty much certain of it.

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

That's not CZ-J but, in actual fact, a midget who committed suicide by hanging herself on the set.

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Friday, 16 June 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.alltelcircle.com/i/pic/topbanner.jpg

― Rex Mantlepiece (RMANT), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

That looks hardly like her or the suicidal midget. Notice how the only real mascot they got was Sprint's.

― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't seen that Sprint guy in a long time. Is he still being used?

― musically (musically), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

On "Before They Were Famous" they showed a clip of CZ-J on a documentary in 1981, and she was teeny looking, definitely not an overdeveloped 11 year old.

And maybe I'm looking from a completely different era perspective... but to me that dancing woman looks about 40.

― JTS (JTS), Saturday, 17 June 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

40? with an overdose of botox maybe.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 17 June 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

They stopped with the Sprint guy. I do"HEY LOOKOUT! BEA ARTHUR!"n't know who/what they use now...

― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Saturday, 17 June 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Well, we're saying it may be Cleo Rocos. Someone ask her?

― mark grout (mark grout), Saturday, 17 June 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

todays classic thread revival.

Read 'em and leap.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

Was CBJ the one in the arms of four drunken Scotsmen from Hull?

― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Catherine "Beater" Jones.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

So is it Cleo Rocos as I so (over-)confidently stated?

― Tom D., Friday, 15 August 2008 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

Dunno. When she was in Celeb Big Bro, there was a "Send your questions in" page, so I sentone in, asking her.

No reply.

― Mark G, Friday, 15 August 2008 18:33 (seventeen years ago)

seven years pass...

Asked her on Twitter.

Will let you know...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 12:59 (nine years ago)

On tenterhooks.

There is a scene of screaming teenage girls chasing the band members ( and a policeman complaining about being overwhelmed by a mob of "little girls" ). One of the ( not-so-little ) girls looks suspiciously like a young Cleo Rocos. Actually her, or just a coincidence ? Anyone know ?
I was going to ask something similar - a girl looking very like young Cleo Rocos also appears in the "Roof-Top Concert" scene, sitting on the left of the scene, wearing a red sweater...
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― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 13:07 (nine years ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/497304034991022080/Yglk_KIP_bigger.jpegcleo rocos ‏@cleorocos1 · 16h16 hours ago

Yes that is me...WOW..You have good eyes..!!! XX

― Mark G, Thursday, 16 June 2016 08:56 (nine years ago)

Well done

― Cry for a Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 June 2016 10:01 (nine years ago)

haha fantastic

― Oh baby, if only you knew / Gabnebb hit a hundred-and-two (stevie), Thursday, 16 June 2016 10:50 (nine years ago)

Get in there! I deserve a prize!

― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 June 2016 11:05 (nine years ago)

You have cleo complimenting yr eyes!

― Mark G, Thursday, 16 June 2016 11:06 (nine years ago)

I'm not very good at many things but I am very good on faces.

― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 June 2016 11:07 (nine years ago)

Is this article about you? http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/world/europe/london-police-super-recognizer-walks-beat-with-a-facebook-of-the-mind.html

― Cry for a Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 June 2016 11:10 (nine years ago)

I sat the test. I'm not a super recognizer, just a quite good one.

― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 June 2016 11:15 (nine years ago)

can't believe Ott made a bad call in the process of paying more attention than necessary to a questionably young girl

― reader, if you love him so much why don't you marry him? (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 16 June 2016 11:21 (nine years ago)

lmao

― Dierks Bentley's Holistic Detective Agency (some dude), Thursday, 16 June 2016 11:27 (nine years ago)

I sat the test. I'm not a super recognizer, just a quite good one.

How about voices?

― Cry for a Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 June 2016 12:49 (nine years ago)

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