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Disorder, affliction, malaise. Call it what you will but we’ve been defining illness offline pretty well this week. There’s been more sniffles in the wordia office than that hayfever sufferers convention I went to in a hay barn surrounded by a highly polluting ringroad. But disease is just a word to the dictionary and the wordia must, and did go on.
In terms of filming we’ve been keeping it pretty showbiz this week. First up was a trip to see Leanne Jones. She is the multi-award winning star of hit West End musical Hairspray. We arrived backstage at the theatre to find that the dreaded lurgy wasn’t just confined to our office but had dared to afflict the crème de la crème of theatreland’s talent. The one and only Michael Ball – no less- was under the weather, causing much consternation amongst the backstage crew. However we were delighted to see Michael stroll casually through the door looking the picture of health. Comforted that the audience wouldn’t be deprived of their main attraction we were able to chat to Leanne with our minds set at rest.
Next up was wordia’s first proper Hollywood film star. This was a pretty big moment for us. After all it’s not everyday you get to shake hands with George of the Jungle himself – Brendan Fraser. Having appeared in blockbusters like the aforementioned Disney comedy, the Mummy trilogy and Crash, Brendan was in town to promote his new movie Inkheart. When relating the experience of meeting him back at the office the description that Homer Simpson gave of God upon meeting him in a dream came to mind, i.e. “nice hair, good teeth, a class act all the way”. Unlinke God, Brendan was very down to earth and I would recommend keeping you eyes peeled for his definitions coming soon – particularly of ‘protagonist’.
In site news after many fantastic entries our Christmas competition has closed. All the winners’ videos (as chosen by the wordia community) are well worth a watch so do take a moment to  give them a spin.
ALIVE by hennell

COMMUNION by fishcatshoe

GOODNESS DaveyBoyz

POWER by fishcatshoe
Finally after two weeks at the top Nick Clegg’s definition of democracy has finally been knocked off the prestigious perch of highest rated video on wordia. In fact it’s dropped all the way down to number three. In its place is Roald Dahl’s legendary illustrator Quentin Blake giving us his feelings on illustration, closely followed by a very funny film that Daveyboyz feels defines parody. We couldn’t agree more.
As always, keep it wordia.