SHE’S playing a toff in ITV’s big period drama, so it’s easy to forget Jane Horrocks once had us in stitches as dopey Northerner Bubble in comedy Absolutely Fabulous.
But the actress, who stars as upper-class Sylvia Blackett in Sunday night war thriller The Singapore Grip, reckons they probably couldn’t make the outrageous Nineties sitcom in today’s sensitive TV world.
Jane says meddling bosses would now bar creator Jennifer Saunders from writing some of the most scandalous plots and punchlines from the series, which first hit screens in 1992.
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