Ashton-born former Coronation Street Star Amanda Barrie has lifted the lid on how she was 'humiliated' while starring in Carry on Cleo.
Amanda appeared in two of the Carry on movies before joining the cast of Corrie in 1981.
As well as Carry on Cleo, where she starred as Cleopatra opposite Sid James, she also appeared in Carry on Cabby.
But, alongside other female former Carry on Stars, Amanda - who played Alma in Coronation Street for two decades - has revealed how she was shocked by how poorly she was treated on set while making the comedy classics.
Before filming on Carry On Cleo even began the actress was left "humiliated" when she was reportedly forced to visit a hormone specialist in a bit to make her breasts bigger.
Sepaking in The Mirror, Amanda, 88, claimed: “They sent me to a specialist in Harley Street, who Frank Sinatra used. He told me: ‘You’re the nearest thing to a hermaphrodite I’ve ever seen’. It doesn’t fill you full of enthusiasm.”
Amanda also said she had a bad experience with co-star Kenneth Williams, the star of 26 films, saying he once tore off her dressing gown in front of the queue. “He ripped it off and went, ‘It’s mine!’" she said. "I was left there stark naked. It was a shock, even in the '60s.”
Amanda was born Shirley Anne Broadbent in Ashton in 1935. But when to college in St Annes on Lancashire's Fylde Coast.
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