Amanda Mealing is best known for playing the formidable Connie Beauchamp in Holby City and Casualty, but when we meet the actress for a chat, she is a million miles away from her straight-talking – and at times mean – alter ego.
Dressed in dungarees and a T-shirt, a make-up free Amanda, 51, is chatting to us over Zoom from her home, which she shares with her husband Richard.
We immediately warm to the engaging star as she chats to us about everything from her house renovation disasters to her desire to do Strictly one day. “It’s my guilty pleasure,” she says.
But the main reason for meeting with Amanda, who is mum to Milo, 21, and Otis, 19, is to talk about a subject very close to her heart – breast cancer.
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