Debbie Currie

Deborah Currie (born 1974) is a British former journalist and a daughter of Edwina Currie. She released a cover version of "You Can Do Magic" by Limmie & Family Cookin', which charted at number 86 on the UK singles chart and was later revealed to be part of an investigation into chart-rigging by The Cook Report.

Debbie Currie
Born	Deborah Currie 1974 (age 50–51) Findern, England
Alma mater	University of Huddersfield
Occupation	Journalist
Mother	Edwina Currie

Life and career

Deborah Currie^[1] was born in 1974.^[2] She graduated from Denstone College, and also read English and Communication Arts at the University of Huddersfield, where she worked as a lollipop lady^[3] and at George Hotel, Huddersfield.^[4] In 1997, Currie covered a version of Limmie & Family Cookin's "You Can Do Magic", with Sinitta providing her vocals.^[5] To promote the single, she toured Scotland with pop band The Mojams,^[6] claimed that she had enjoyed group sex and lost her virginity at fifteen,^[7] told her mother Edwina Currie about the latter in Tesco,^[3] and posed with fried eggs on her breasts.^[5] Edwina used an interview after her 1997 United Kingdom general election defeat to promote the song.^[6]

The song was released on 19 May 1997^[8] on Barry Tomes' Gotham Records and was pulled three days later.^[9] Credited to "Mojams featuring Debbie Currie", the song charted at number 86 on the UK singles chart.^[10] Later that month, it was revealed that the single was part of a ruse by Roger Cook's The Cook Report to investigate the practice of chart-rigging,^[7] that the track had been withdrawn because the programme's budget had run out,^[9] and that Currie was in fact a trainee journalist for Central Television^[8] who had been chosen for said ruse because of her tabloid history.^[3] She later secured an actual recording contract,^[1] before moving to the Peak District and taking a job as a gas-meter fitter. In October 2009, she stated that she had become a single mother by choice at age thirty and encouraged having children before finding a partner.^[11]