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I want one of those

This is the sort of picture I'd like on my mantelpiece - it gives the impression I've won something. It was taken at the Baftas in 1996, and I didn't win - I wasn't even nominated. Sir Anthony Hopkins very kindly pulled me into a picture he was having taken. The only award I've ever got was from a TV magazine. It was a joint award with Sue Nicholls (Audrey Roberts) for my death scene in Coronation Street. Not very auspicious.

What a carry-on

I doubt there's one picture of me and Sid James where I'm not laughing. He was such a funny guy. This was on the set of Carry On Cleo. I remember thinking I was fat and ugly, but I saw the film recently and thought, 'Oh, I wasn't as fat and ugly as I thought.' You can see my ribs here, so God knows why I felt overweight. I've been told men lusted after me. I can't imagine anyone lusting after an idiot who spent most of the movie up to her neck in milk.

Belinda's brilliant

Here I am with Belinda Carlisle at the wrap party for Hell's Kitchen. I don't know who the man next to her is - probably the hitman we'd hired to bump off Mr Ramsay. That's why Belinda is saying shush, because we don't want anyone to know he's hiding in the back of the car. Anyway, Belinda is such a lovely person. I went to see her in concert and she was fantastic.

Slap happy

This may look like I'm high-fiving Gordon Ramsay on Hell's Kitchen, but I was probably lining up my aim in case I got to hit the most slappable face in the country. He got me so mad I tried to hit him twice and he had to call security. Apart from that, I laughed so much with the other contestants I thought I'd break a rib, but the public never saw that part.

Bad girl

Obviously this isn't me, it's my older, evil twin sister. OK, it's me, but don't I look dreadful? What a f**king awful picture. I don't have any tits, so God knows what that thing peeking out on the left is. I was with Jack Ellis, my Bad Girls co-star, at last year's National TV Awards. It's a wonderful job. I love playing an inebriated drug addict because you can turn up in the morning to film looking as bad as you like.

Royal tease

Here I am having a laugh with Prince Charles at a fundraiser for a bowel cancer charity. I can't for the life of me remember what we were laughing about, but I guess he'd just noticed that Des Lynam was asleep. What's my opinion of Prince Charles? I'd think I'd better not say. I don't want to end up in the Tower Of London, waiting to be beheaded for treason.

Facing the Fury

This was way back when. I made a film in 1965 with Billy Fury called I've Gotta Horse. It was meant to be the big rival to Cliff Richard's Summer Holiday, but it didn't do very well. From this picture, it looks like Billy and I had to work the camera as well as act. That's all my own hair, by the way. Like Carry On Cleo, I thought I looked awful at the time. I'm always putting myself down. It drives my friends crazy.

East end girls

Barbara Windsor had a birthday bash at The Ivy a couple of years ago. We've known each other for years - we started off doing cabaret together in the 1950s. I think our joint ages in this picture are 136, but we're both still standing and we're both still working. I've got that big black bag because I bought her a present - two porcelain sparrows, because she was in a film once called Sparrows Can't Sing.

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