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Helen Lederer reveals the one role that earned her more money than Absolutely Fabulous and Coronation Street for just a day-and-a-half's work
Speaking to The Telegraph, Lederer claims her most lucrative acting role came from the most unlikely of sources.
Starring alongside Jennifer Saunders as PR guru Edina Monsoon and Joanna Lumley as sozzled sidekick Patsy Stone, actress and comedian Helen Lederer featured regularly across its five series run as magazine employee Catriona. But while Monsoon's colourful wardrobe of designer clothes has long since closed, Lederer, 69, is back on mainstream TV in long- running soap Coronation Street, playing show stalwart Ken Barlow's latest love interest. Lederer - who married second husband Chris Browne (pictured), a GP, in 1999 - also admitted she took slimming pills for years and lived on a diet of 400 calories a day and wine
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