THE Trouble with Maggie Cole’s Dawn French and Julie Hesmondhalgh have revealed the real life gossip that inspired the ITV drama.
The six-part ITV drama follows Dawn's character Maggie - a local gossip who goes on regional radio to talk about local life in the fictional coastal town of Thurlbury.
However, Maggie gets tipsy before taking to the airwaves and divulges all the rumours and gossip about her fellow residents, real and imagined.
Her salacious comments are then played out during the live broadcast leaving everyone aghast, and leading to terrible consequences.
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