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The depressing story behind Noel Edmonds' Mr Blobby theme parks

1994 was a bit of an annus horibilis for Noel Edmonds. It signified the very moment that he overreached – over-estimated his popularity, and built not one but two theme parks based on his Saturday night TV show ‘Noel’s House Party’, and its terrifying, manic mascot, Mr Blobby. The idea was to replicate Noel’s wacky world in real life, his tumbledown manor house – the hilariously-entitled ‘Crinkly Bottom’ – being at the centre of what was hoped would be a successful branching out into the leisu