Mr Opik told Hello he was "scared" of the Cheeky Girls' mother Margit.

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The Cheeky Girls arrived in the UK from Romania in 2002 and shot to fame with their unsuccessful auditions in the reality TV show Popstars: The Rivals.

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The chat-show regular who has had high profile relationships with ITV weathergirl Sian Lloyd and one-half of the Cheeky Girls, Gabriela Irimia, lost to Glyn Davies despite defending a majority of more than 7, 000 from 2005.

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Mr Connor further suggests that all ventriloquists' dummies are interchangeable the cheeky boy, upon whom violence can guiltlessly be visited (it would not do if they were girls or small animals).

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