#WhereAreTheyNow: Girl from A-ha's video "Take On Me"
Friday, April 22, 2011 at 12:17PMI'm completely crushing on this song something fierce today ... and it kinda got me thinkin, the chickadee in this video - who is she, and where is she now?
After googling like a crazy woman ... no really, I looked like the crazy cat lady from the Simpsons - only instead of throwing cats I was throwing down keys on my keyboard. HIZZUAH!!!
So sexy
Annnyyywwaaayyyyyyyy ... the chickadee from the A-ha video is named Bunty Bailey. (HAHAHAHA totally not a joke.)
Here's her wiki:
Therese "Bunty" Bailey (born 1961) is an English model, dancer, and actress. Bunty started her career as a dancer in the erotic dance group Hot Gossip in the early 1980s. She became known as the girl in the early a-ha's music videos Take on Me, and The Sun Always Shines on T.V. made in 1985. She met Morten Harket, the lead singer in a-ha on the set, and the pair subsequently dated.
She has since appeared in several films, with her last role in 2008 as a Gypsy Mamma in Defunct. She is currently living in Wraysbury, Berkshire, working as a children's dance teacher at Wraysbury and Datchet Village Hall. She was listed by Fox News as being one of the The Hottest '80s Video Vixens. Bunty has two sons, who were born in the late 1990s. In June 2009, she was one of the first people to take advantage of the UK government car scrappage scheme and was invited to breakfast with the Prime Minister at the time Gordon Brown.
So yeah! There ya go ... and now you know!! Whoop whoop! Enjoy the vid. One of my all time all time all time personal favs ...
A-ha - Take On Me by amandaburr
PS. Have you guys ever seen the literal version for this video??? OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG it makes my life!
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Reader Comments (2)
Thanks for answering the question. I probably would have been like the cat lady if I wasn't able to find the answer. By the way, Ms. Bailey was smoking hot.
This was great. Thanks for the Video of Ah Ha and Take Me On! I remember watching it on MTV and falling in love with them. 5 octives! WOW! What a voice Morten Harket has. "Harket held a note for 20.2 seconds in A-ha's 2000 song "Summer Moved On", believed to be the longest note in UK chart history." Copied from Wikipedia.
I knew when I first heard him that his voice was one of a kind and a truly amazing one. I wish they were still together....sigh