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Liverpool Echo
Entertainment
Kate Lally

Stephen Mulhern's In For A Penny slammed over Dot Cotton joke

In For A Penny viewers were taken aback on Saturday night when the show, fronted by Stephen Mulhern, featured a Dot Cotton skit just days after June Brown, the actress who played the soap legend, died.

The programme sees Stephen travel across the country to set tasks and trials to members of the public. Saturday's instalment saw the presenter offering a hairdressing themed challenge.

People had to guess whether the men sitting in a barber's chair, with a towel on their heads, had hair or were bald. Stephen began styling a woman's hair in different ways, and at one point compared her to Dot Cotton.

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