celebrities believing it was Saturday Night Live territory. She instead chose to do amalgamations – a combination of many real-life everyday people, and in some instances, famous ones. The only character to return from The Tracey Ullman Show was Kay Clark, as Ullman was the sole creator. Fox owned the rights to all the other characters that appeared on that show. "I love Kay. I'm very fond of her. This little British spinster - she's so courageous, and to think she's sort of on national television in America is rather thrilling to me when I used to witness her in the local bank in my village. She'd say, 'Hello, Miss Ullman. How's Hollywood?' And to think she's on American television and - she doesn't know!" The characters Trevor Ayliss, Virginia and Timothy Bugge, and Janie Pillsworth, along with her mother Jackie were originally created for the 1993 British comedy special Tracey Ullman: A Class Act. Trevor was based on a real British Airways steward and an observation Ullman made about crewmen who would "butch up" once they made their way out of the galley. "I love Trevor. I've always wanted to do one of those gay air stewards because they're always so lovely to me. As Linda [Granger] says (lower-ing her voice to the throaty, teeth-clenched contralto of the washed-up Linda Granger): "I have a wonderful homosexual fan base, and I love them!" Since playing the character, every male steward Ullman has encountered is convinced that she based it on them. "And I always say I did. I go, 'You're right, I based it on you,' because that way I get free caviar." Fashion magazine editor Janie Pillsworth was an amalgamation of British editors such as Tina Brown and Anna Wintour. The characters Fern and Harry Rosenthal and Linda Granger were created for Tracey Ullman Takes on New York. Ullman had toyed with the idea of giving Fern her own show but found that playing Fern left her feeling like a limp rag and that her husband avoided her like the plague. "I had seen this kind of woman many times in New York over the years. 'Loud, emotional with 'I'm from the suburbs' written all over her. She sat behind me at matinees of Cats and Les Misérables, not too shy to shout out to the performers, "Speak up, darling, we can't hear you!'" When asked how many different