Comedian and actress Francesca Martinez has revealed the power of that school drama on telly.
The 37-year-old appeared on This Morning chatting about her attitude to life as a comedian with cerebral palsy, and explained that her stint on Grange Hill helped her accept who she is.
‘Grange Hill saved me. I went to an all-girls school where if you didn’t eat the right sandwiches or have a TV you were a freak,’ she explained to hosts Phil Schofield and Amanda Holden. ‘The girls there told me “you haven’t got a telly so you can’t be on telly!”‘
So Francesca, the comedian who labels herself ‘wobbly’ because of her condition, ignored her critics and made it onto the cult kids TV show, and she said… Read the full story