Tombliboos Unhappy When Ragdoll Won’t Come Out To Play
A disgruntled actor is in front of an industrial tribunal in Birmingham claiming injury and insult from the animatronic suit he had to wear in the TV program, ‘In The Night Garden’. Isaac Blake, 28, a Cardiff boy played one of the Tombliboos in the show, which is made by Ragdoll Productions and based in Warwickshire. He says that the suit covered him completely and he was dependent on cameras to see, when the cameras failed for several weeks he was unable to see anything. He claims that Ragdoll intimidated him and forced him to continue performing until he fell over and had to go to hospital. He also suffered a pelvic injury in a different incident when he was asked to bend over. He was sacked after being signed off work by doctors and feels it was an unfair dismissal. He also has stories of colleagues calling him a ‘bitch’ and a ‘faggot’, and being ignored when he put in a complaint. The tribunal continues.
