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part of a ruse by Roger Cook's The Cook Report to investigate the practice of chart-rigging,[7] that the track had been withdrawn because the programme's budget had run out,[9] and that Currie was in fact a trainee journalist for Central Television[8] who had been chosen for said ruse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]