“i’d rather be funny than beautiful”

One day in 1974, actress Prunella Scales travelled to Hyde Park Gardens to visit John Cleese in his flat to discuss a potential role in a new situation comedy called Fawlty Towers. As it happened, Cle

Ellie Taylor is known for finding humour in life’s chaos, but even she isn’t immune to the occasional mum meltdown. “In the run-up to last Christmas, everything was frantic and I filmed myself eating

Alan Davies plays a successful comic with an inflated ego and secrets to hide in the latest Play For Today, but he promises his role isn’t based on anyone we know. “I didn’t base him on anyone in part

SHE’S the heart and soul of every traditional pantomime and one of the best-loved characters of all. Often, she’s the mother of the village idiot, the ship’s chief cook and bottle-washer or the propri

Pantomime occupies a special place in Linda Robson’s heart after years spent performing with her best pal and Birds Of A Feather co-star Pauline Quirke. But this year Linda is treading the boards alon

Alison Steadman is finally getting back on her feet after a nasty fall in January left her wheelchair bound and needing surgery. The 79-year-old Gavin & Stacey star was at a poetry event in Dubai when