Axed Celebrity Gogglebox star reveals REAL reason she was sacked after nudity row
Celebrity Gogglebox star Dame Sheila Hancock has revealed she was ‘sacked’ for complaining about the amount of nudity she has to watch.
The acting legend, 90, has opened up about she butted heads with bosses over the racy clips she had to comment on for the series – including flesh-fest Naked Attraction.
Fans saw Sheila appearing on the first series of the star-stuffed spin-off show with her pal Gyles Brandreth.
Sheila told The Mirror: “I used to love doing it with Gyles, but they sacked me from that. Well, they did not ask me back.
“I think it was because there were a lot of shows with penises in, and because it went down [well] with the audience, they kept showing them to us.
“Eventually I phoned up the lady on the edit and said, ‘I am enjoying the show, but do you think we can have anything other than penises?’ and she was quite angry.”
It comes as Maureen Lipman, who also appeared with Gyles after Sheila parted ways with the show, also exited the hit programme last year for similar reasons.
She told Radio Times: “I went in imagining that they wanted me for my wit and my brain. Of course, they just want to show you willies and for you to be shocked.
“Honestly, we were really funny together, but none of that was used. And if they don’t want to use what we gave them, f*** them.”
In a separate interview, Maureen also fumed: “They’re not really interested in our opinions on what they’re giving us. I’d seen Gogglebox and I thought: ‘Oh, [ours] is the grown-up version, is it?
“But it’s your reaction to 12 dangling willies they want. They’re searching for ways to make me go: ‘Urgh!'”