2006-10-25 08:51:50 · 13 answers · asked by Carol H 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
her tug on the ear at the end of every perfomance is a nod to Nanny. (her grandmother)
Burnett has often told stories about her eccentric but adoring grandmother (Nanny) who raised her in a poor part of Hollywood.
2006-10-25 09:01:48 · answer #1 · answered by jsweit8573 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Miss Burnett's parents battled alcoholism throughout her childhood. Her father left home when Miss Burnett was 8 years old. Both Miss Burnett and her sister were raised by her grandmother, to whom the star would pay homage on her show each week by tugging on her ear.
"Yes, they had the disease," she says of her parents. "That was very sad, and very trying at times, but I never felt I wasn't loved. My grandmother was fierce about loving me."
The matriarch also proved a steady source of comic inspiration. "She was funny, but sometimes she didn't mean to be," Miss Burnett recalls with a chuckle.
2006-10-25 08:59:05 · answer #2 · answered by KIT-KAT 5 · 8⤊ 0⤋
I remember watching a special on TV about Carol a while back and she answered this question.
It was for her "Nanny"
2006-10-25 09:00:56 · answer #3 · answered by obsolete_allurement 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was a secret signal to her grandmother.
2006-10-25 09:26:39 · answer #4 · answered by HipHopGrandma 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She was saying I love you to her grandma
2006-10-25 08:55:29 · answer #5 · answered by savampire16 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was her secret way of saying hello to her mother.
2006-10-25 08:54:24 · answer #6 · answered by jim k 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was a signal to a relative of hers...
2006-10-25 08:59:49 · answer #7 · answered by fairly smart 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
to let her grandma know she was ok,
2006-10-25 13:24:32 · answer #8 · answered by zoboomafoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to say hello to her mother
2006-10-25 09:47:03 · answer #9 · answered by valgal115 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a signal of love her and her husband had.
2006-10-25 09:00:33 · answer #10 · answered by di05712 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋