Miriam Margolyes has This Morning viewers in hysterics over how she deals with rude people on public transport

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Miriam Margolyes took no prisoners today as she explained how she deftly deals with people who don’t give up their seat for her on public transport.

The actress told This Morning that she has a spinal condition that means standing for long periods of time is agony for her.

Plus, she’s 78 and a legend, so you’d think that people would automatically stand up for her. But it appears that is not always the case - and she has a rather brutal way of making anyone who ignores her request see the error of their ways.

She told hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield that once a man didn’t give her a seat... so she sat on him. “I did ask first,” said Miriam. “I said, please would you let me sit down and he ignored me.