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Garden Rescue star Charlie Dimmock on coveted Calendar Girls role alongside EastEnders legend that she landed thanks to sex symbol status


Star of Garden Rescue Charlie Dimmock once took to the stage to appear in Calendar Girls alongside EastEnders star Letitia Dean.

“It was simply a case of: ‘Here’s a glass of champagne, can you take all your clothes off now?’ It would be a fib to say I wasn’t expecting it because we all know what the show is and we all know what happens.” Even though she formed a close bond with the cast, Charlie still had to “pinch myself” she landed the role. Charlie insisted the reason she booked the job was because the producer David Pugh “approached me was because of that image of me”.

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