Emmerdale's Amanda Donohoe: 'I'd strip again!'

Emmerdale's Amanda Donohoe: 'I'd strip again!'
Emmerdale's Amanda Donohoe: 'I'd strip again!' (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Emmerdale star Amanda Donohoe would be willing to strip off for a role again. The 48-year-old, who plays Natasha Wylde in the rural ITV1 soap, has disrobed for films in the past, including Castaway with Oliver Reed. Asked if she'd do it now, Amanda told Woman's Own: "Definitely. I was thinking of doing the Calendar Girls play. I thought, I'm in pretty good nick. Let's get them out before I can't any more!" She also admitted to once trying Botox but said she disliked the effect. "I hated the sensation of not having control over my facial muscles. So many women actors of my age have had work done. It's all part of the pressure put on women to look eternally youthful. And I'm not interested in going down that road. "This obsession with age is a sickness, especially when teenagers are being affected and think they need to have work done to stop the wrinkles ever happening. What the hell is going on?" The full interview is in Woman's Own. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.