FYI: Contacted QVC to ask when there might be more Leighton Denny on QVC as it feels like it's been ages since there was last an hour. I got told there was no hours planned at the moment and wrote back to get clarification on this. The answer? "we have no plans to stock the range at the moment"
No more Leighton Denny...
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I miss the LD shows. I used to watch every one on an LD TSV day and never got bored.
I wonder what really happened after Leighton himself stopped appearing. Did sales fall right off (especially with the poor new manicurist presenter Emma who couldn't paint nails well for the life of her)? Or did QVC have problems trying to force such good deals out of the company? Or both? You do seem to see the polishes in a lot more places now so after Q lost the exclusivity, maybe they had a strop because they could no longer charge a premium for it.
I wonder what really happened after Leighton himself stopped appearing. Did sales fall right off (especially with the poor new manicurist presenter Emma who couldn't paint nails well for the life of her)? Or did QVC have problems trying to force such good deals out of the company? Or both? You do seem to see the polishes in a lot more places now so after Q lost the exclusivity, maybe they had a strop because they could no longer charge a premium for it.
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Such a pity, used to love watching Leighton. So professional & a great sense of humour, stood no make cow deposit from the presenters.
That's pretty much it fir me with QVC & nail polish. Don't get on with OPI & have enough Nails Inc to paint a fleet of battleships.
That's pretty much it fir me with QVC & nail polish. Don't get on with OPI & have enough Nails Inc to paint a fleet of battleships.
We can always hope! (Though I did get this info from QVC today).
I always enjoyed watching the shows too (well...until Emma anyway).
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It's a real shame. Leighton was an outstanding guest. I love his products.
Brissles
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Perhaps he's sold the company (aka Liz Earle), and that accounts for the re-branding.
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i do remember something about him selling it
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What a shame if he doesn't come back! One of Q's best brands and he was entertaining to Watch! Products are Super too! :mysmilie_7:
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I agree with you all.
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Its been said on Facebook, Nina is still doing the brand on QVC Germany very recently.
Gone the way of a lot of QVC brands, now being sold at Marks n Sparks for full price with no need to pimp yourself out or bow to Q's fabled 'buying power' thereby reducing your profit margin to the price of a packet of Walkers' ready salted
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Well I predicated that this would happen. I have seen it before, been with QVC since the beginning. I like his file but not much else. M&S don't stock in every branch. Mine does not sell the full range of beauty they have online. If you ask you get you can't get online!
stratobuddy
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I wonder if they make up these posh names eg Leighton to sound up-market.
I had a neighbour who was a financial adviser called St John (pronounced singe-un). He parked his Bentley in his driveway as a status symbol (he could have put it in the garage).
Turns out it was a made up posh name, he was a confidence trickster running a ponsy scheme, and ended up in prison.
I had a neighbour who was a financial adviser called St John (pronounced singe-un). He parked his Bentley in his driveway as a status symbol (he could have put it in the garage).
Turns out it was a made up posh name, he was a confidence trickster running a ponsy scheme, and ended up in prison.
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Leighton Jack Denny is his real name
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/leighton-denny-nail-expert-to-the-stars-1-6744644
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/leighton-denny-nail-expert-to-the-stars-1-6744644
I think that's why I liked him so much. And his irreverence, such as asking Claire Sutton why she was talking posh when (according to him) she doesn't backstage, telling Alison Young she doesn't know everything about beauty, telling the producers he hated the lighting and/or camera angles, his accidental double-entendres which appealed to my sense of humour. Oh, Leighton, why did you have to go?!
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It may be that Leighton is a family name - may be his mum's maiden name even. He's of an age where in some parts of the North of England (and maybe Scotland too) where first born son's were given their mother's maiden name as a first name. I grew up in the North East, with most of my family in Scotland, and there were a number of people I knew (some no longer with us) who had, frankly, bizarre first names... until it was explained why. I had an uncle called Lang, one of my dad's friends was called Hedley - neither would be an obvious first name choice...
Also I would say that Leighton isn't really a posh name. England footballer Leighton Baines, anybody?
