The woman known as "the voice of the Tube" on London's underground has been sacked after criticising the network and making spoof announcements including making fun of US tourists, officials said Monday.
Emma Clarke has for the last eight years been famous as the voice warning travellers to "Mind the Gap" between the train and the platform, and to "stand clear of the closing doors."
But the 36-year-old, a professional voice-over artist, annoyed her employers with a series of light-hearted spoof announcements posted on her own website, at
In one she says: "We would like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loudly."
In another she announces that the passenger pretending to read a paper but actually staring at a woman's chest should stop, since he was "not fooling anyone, you filthy pervert".
IRONICALLY, Clarke's website had planned to start advertising the latest Apple musical gadget, the iBoob (see below) until she saw the potential criticism that she might face...
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