When you think of Ruth Madoc it's her Bafta-nominated portrayal of lovelorn chief yellowcoat Gladys Pugh in the classic holiday camp sitcom Hi-De-Hi! which probably springs to mind. However, as she admitted in 2017, she was never able to summon the nerve to watch it the entire time it ran on the BBC between 1980 and 1988.
"I didn’t used to watch it at the time because I was so scared I would hate seeing myself so much I wouldn’t be able to do it anymore," she said. "I watched it quite recently though and it’s really stood the test of time.
"That’s down to the writing, of course. We buried writer Jimmy Perry (who wrote the show alongside David Croft) recently and we were all there. It’s sad. Another page turned."
