Claire Sweeney would love to team up with her old Brookside boss Sir Phil Redmond to play a teacher in the new Grange Hill movie.
But the 50-year old joked she couldn’t teach maths after a “horrendous” time home schooling her seven-year-old son Jaxon.
Playing Lindsey Corkhill in the Liverpool-based soap made her a household name but after finishing runner-up in the first Celebrity Big Brother in 2001 she’s become a mainstay of British musical theatre.