That ‘Scary’ Lucille Ball Statue Has Finally Been Replaced

The new statue is being unveiled as part of this year’s Lucille Ball Comedy Festival in nearby Jamestown.

The “Lovely Lucy” statue that will replace the “Scary Lucy’ in Celoron, New York, came about after many of Lucille Ball’s fans, who vehemontly disliked the “Scary Lucy” statue showing Ball tasting Vitametavegamin, began a campaign that went viral to have the statue removed”.

The life-size sculpture is a remake of an older statue made seven years ago. Palmer was commissioned to do the statue after the public objected to the previous statue of the late actress on aesthetic reasons, often referring to it as “Scary Lucy”.

Sculptor Carolyn Palmer said she was inspired by Lucy’s liveliness and fun character.

One of the most iconic shows in television history, “I Love Lucy”, entertained and delighted audiences across the nation when it ran on CBS from 1951-1957.

Palmer’s sculpture was unveiled at about noon on Saturday, August 6, which would have been Lucy’s 105th birthday.

It depicts her wearing a polka-dotted dress, purse, pearls and 3-inch heels.

A bronze version of that statue is being produced for St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NY.

Celoron Mayor Scott Schrecengost says “Scary Lucy” will be given another spot in the park. In photographs, the new Lucy can look a touch murdery from certain angles owing mostly to the wideness of her eyes.

“You have to feel the person you’re sculpting or else it doesn’t come true”, she said, going on to note how hard it is to produce a three-dimensional version of such a famous face that everyone agrees is accurate.

Artist Carolyn Palmer was selected and spent nine months studying Ball, by watching re-runs of “I Love Lucy”.

Palmer’s other works include well-known faces and personalities such as Pope Francis, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Orville and Wilbur Wright, and Thomas Jefferson. “Get Rid of this Statue” which gained national attention past year.

“Overall, I just really, really hope that I please the town of Celoron, please Lucy’s family and all her fans”.

“I think it looks like a monster”.