Kathy and me

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W Gillian Taylforth is one of the funniest women I know. Long before she struck professional oil and overnight fame as Kath in EastEnders, I remember her keeping a riotous party of would-be wits convulsed till dawn with a crackerjack display of gags and anecdotes that any stand-up comic would be pleased to ^ ^ parade at the Palladium. She has that precious ^J ability, rare in women, to be one of the boys A J l|Í| M withöut ever compromising her femininity. J Kí^ti É| Jack Tinker, theatre critic, Daily Mail |
The Taylforths are a big, close-knit London family whose talented and warm-hearted second daughter has become a famous TV soap star. Although Gillian had acted in a number of television productions, including The Rag Trade and Shelley, it was only when, at the age of 29, she was cast in the BBC's new soap opera EastEnders that she finally began to regard acting, rather than secretarial work, as her 'proper' - full-time - career. Her role as Kathy Beale rapidly fulfilled the... Tovább

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W Gillian Taylforth is one of the funniest women I know. Long before she struck professional oil and overnight fame as Kath in EastEnders, I remember her keeping a riotous party of would-be wits convulsed till dawn with a crackerjack display of gags and anecdotes that any stand-up comic would be pleased to ^ ^ parade at the Palladium. She has that precious ^J ability, rare in women, to be one of the boys A J l|Í| M withöut ever compromising her femininity. J Kí^ti É| Jack Tinker, theatre critic, Daily Mail |
The Taylforths are a big, close-knit London family whose talented and warm-hearted second daughter has become a famous TV soap star. Although Gillian had acted in a number of television productions, including The Rag Trade and Shelley, it was only when, at the age of 29, she was cast in the BBC's new soap opera EastEnders that she finally began to regard acting, rather than secretarial work, as her 'proper' - full-time - career. Her role as Kathy Beale rapidly fulfilled the producer's prediction that it would make her a 'household name' ('Like Domestos, you mean?' muttered her father). But this has at times proved a high price to pay for the fun and fulfilment she derives from her work on the series. She soon learned that it was one thing to be stopped in the Street by admiring autograph-hunters, or by people confusing her with her TV persona and offering her advice (or even ticking her off!), but quite another to be interviewed by an apparently sympathetic journalist only to see her words distorted in the next day's headlines. Eventually, in 1994, after enduring almost a decade of such treatment by the press, Gillian and her family courageously took on the police, the média and the most expensive lawyers in the land when they decided that the gossip and the lies had gone too far. The outcome of the much-publicised trial nearly destroyed them all. Kathy and Me is Gillian Taylforth's autobiography. She describes with wit and exuberance her childhood, her teenage years, her first forays into acting and her current lifestyle, recounting scores of anecdotes about Vissza