Brenda Blethyn turned down ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’ because she can’t live without luxury.
The 68-year-old actress – who plays DCI Vera Stanhope in detective drama series ‘Vera’ – has been asked to rough it in the jungle, but despite her relatives urging her to go on the reality series, she didn’t accept.
She told Closer magazine: "I’ve been asked to do ‘I’m A Celeb…’ All my nieces and nephews said, ‘Go on, Aunty Brenda, do it!’ If there was a bathroom and nice, cotton sheets, maybe!"
One thing Brenda wouldn’t be worried about if she did head Down Under is looking good.
The BAFTA-winning actress thinks modern society is too focused on beauty and looking good, something she wouldn’t waste too much of her time on.
She said: "I think we’re obsessed with glamour full stop. I wouldn’t say I’m glamorous, but I want to look nice. The thing I find a bit odd is people altering their body surgically.
"I care what I look like, but I don’t care how Vera looks – I’m not vain about how I appear on screen! Vera is a bit of a scruff. She lives on a remote part of the coast, where the way to survive is to be clever with layering. She’s practical and doesn’t look in the mirror very often."
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