ACTRESS Lesley Joseph is not letting age stand in her way as she heats up the kitchen in Celebrity MasterChef 2022.
The 76-year-old is best known for her role in the TV sitcom Birds Of A Feather.
Who is Lesley Joseph?
Lesley Diana Joseph is an English actress and broadcaster.
She was born on October 14, 1945, in Finsbury Park, London, and grew up in Kingsthorpe, Northampton.
She played the role of Dorien Green in the TV sitcom Birds Of A Feather from 1989 to 1998, and again from 2014 to 2020.
In 2018, she was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, for the original West End production of Young Frankenstein.
Lesley began a radio show in 2008 on BBC London 94.9 with Christopher Biggins, airing every Sunday between 9am to 12pm.
Christopher left the show after a few months, but Lesley continued to host.
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She also stood in for Vanessa Feltz on her weekday morning talk show when she was on holiday.
What TV shows has she been in?
Lesley previously starred in the short-lived ITV soap opera Night And Day and has appeared as a regular guest on daytime shows such as This Morning and Loose Women.
She had a thriving career in theatre performing in major productions including Calendar Girls and Young Frankenstein.
In 2016, Lesley took part in the fourteenth series of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing and was the oldest contestant.
She was partnered with Anton Du Beke and they were the fourth pair to be eliminated.
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Lesley was one of the four competitors who appeared in the special Christmas edition of The Great British Sewing Bee that was transmitted on New Year's Eve 2020.
In 2022, she appeared on the seventh series of Celebrity Coach Trip alongside her Birds Of A Feather co-star Linda Robson.
Also in 2022, the actress is taking part in Celebrity MasterChef along with Kirsty Gallacher, Clarke Peters, Richard Blackwood and Jimmy Bullard.
Is Lesley married and does she have children?
Lesley tends to keep her personal life very private.
While her marital status is unknown, we do know that she has two children, Andrew and Elizabeth from a previous relationship with Carl Littlejohn.
The actress has previously opened up about what it was like to lose her mum in 2016.
She told the Mirror: “Losing a mother when you are very young, that is incredibly difficult because they don’t grow old with you.
"But if you lose them when they are older, you’ve had them all your life. "I had a very close relationship with my mother.
"She was one of 12, and she was the last of them to die. I talk to her every day, in my head.
"I don’t think you ever lose that – she had a thirst for life Hopefully, touch wood, I’ve got her genes."
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