Sherrie Hewson addresses those Benidorm return rumours, what’s next after turning 75 and says she is up for a Corrie return, 20 years on from her last apperance on the Cobbles
TV titan Sherrie Hewson says she’s waiting for the call to bring hit show Benidorm back – and revealed he’d snap up the chance to return to Coronation Street, too.
The telly legend turned 75 last month but isn’t interest in anyone who says it’s time to start taking her foot off the gas. In fact, not only is Sherrie keen to get back to the Solana and even one day to the Cobbles, but she is gearing up to launch her own podcast.
Sherrie says she’s very much living for today and “couldn’t care less” about her personal milestone – in fact, it’s driving her forward. She’s desperate to reprise her role as feisty Joyce Temple-Savage, and says it would be “incredible” to return to her character Maureen Naylor in Corrie at some point too.
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She told the Mirror: “We’re always the last to know when it comes to Benidorm! But wouldn’t it be brilliant? It would be fabulous, wouldn’t it? It still gets great ratings you know, I sit and watch it all the time! I don’t know the answer to if it’s coming back but of course I’m up for it.
“I was lucky because Joyce was a brilliantly written part. Derren Litten could really write for women and you can’t say that about a lot of people. He wrote that part and it was such an amazing gift. I had so many incredible years on that show – five months in Benidorm every year, you can’t get better than that, can you? I’d jump on the plane now if they were bringing it back.
“We had the like of Martin Kemp, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Bananana and Tony Hadley come out. None of them wanted to go home. Of course I want to do it again, and it’s the same with Corrie. I’d love to link up with Tony Maudsley [George Shuttleworth] who played Kenneth in Benidorm, could you imagine?”
The former Celebrity Big Brother star isn’t as up for heading into the I’m A Celebrity jungle but she says the stars should take her lead and say no if they’re not ready to tackle everything. She knows Jack Osbourne will be desperate to take the crown – and he will want to do it for his dad.
“I’m already loving it,” she said. “I wouldn’t do it, not now, because there’s too much I couldn’t do. But that’s also what annoys me – don’t do it if you can’t do everything! Everyone knows what the show’s about. Like the eating task, it’s disgusting but you know it’s coming.
“None of that ‘I can’t do this’ – just get on with it! You’re getting paid to be on there. If you’re going to say that you will do the jungle, you’ve got to do it. You can’t go in there and go ‘well, I’m not doing this, and I’m not doing that’. I did Big Brother years ago and it was unbelievable. You can’t go into these shows knowing you’re being paid to be there and then go ‘oh, I’ll only do certain things’.”
The star turned 75 in September and scoffs at the thought of retirement. Very Very Sherrie launches next month and it promises to be a must-listen podcast which she say will be “just honest, real, and just very, very me”. Big name guests are lined up in a twice-monthly show sure to be personal and full of fun.
“You’ve got to remember I was on Loose Women for years – they couldn’t shut me up and at one point they were kicking me under the table telling me to stop!” she smiles. “You know me, I have no filter. I’ll just say whatever comes, which is perfect for podcasts, isn’t it?
“Too many podcasts lean on ‘isn’t it awful since the pandemic’ and ‘we’ve all got mental illnesses now, we all need therapy’ – we need joy! We need to look to the future. Yes it’s been a tough time but I don’t give a s**t. Just get on with what your life now. Let’s see what this next year bring.
“Do something with your life. You know, I know our world has changed. particularly in my business, but the only thing you can do is shut up, stop moaning about it, and go and do something with yourself and find another way. Get on with your life.”
Turning 75 a few weeks ago barely registered. She added: “My mum always said to me ‘I wish you’d shut up going on about age, and saying you need a facelift, Botox and fillers’. She was 89, her boyfriend was 45. It didn’t matter! She always said to me ‘think, what’s the alternative – you could be dead. What are you going to do about it? Nothing!’.
“So this is what the podcast will be about, the real stuff and those moments. That’s what we all need a bit more of that. For years I’ve been told what I can and can’t say – now I finally get to choose who I talk to and what we talk about. It’s liberating.”
Source: Mirror
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