That’s stretching it, Green Goddess

LASt time I saw Diana Moran, she was thwacking across a television studio in her gynaecologically frank leotards, encouraging viewers to keep fit.

Known as the Green Goddess, Diana appeared on BBC Breakfast shows in the eighties, teaching us all how to do the Monkey Stretch (don’t ask) and bunny-jumps before breakfast.

She was always absolutely jolly superduper; blonde and posh, all cut- glass vowels and effortless middle- class white privilege.

With her perfect grasp of the Queen’s english and faultlesss manners, Diana (right) wouldd never get on the BBC now.

not in a million years! Unless she had a walk- on part in a Joanna trollope drama, or Louis theroux was despatched to make a slyly mockingmockin documentary about her. now aged 78, Diana has popped up to criticise her old keep-fit rival Jane Fonda, suggesting the actress’sac punishing ‘going for the burn’b aerobic routines have more or less crippled her. ‘I’m somebody that just thinks of more natural things,’ she co cooed at the Cheltenham Li Literature Festival. ‘I was doing moderate exercise. Jane Fonda wasa doing all the other stuff, and sh she’s had hips and all sorts of thi things done.’ M Miss Fonda (left) underwent a tot total hip replacement in 2005, just a few months after having a kne knee replacement. D Diana! You are so naughty. You can can’t blame Jane’s star-jumps for her rackety hips — surely some wom women are more prone to joint issues than others? Interesting to see that Diana still considers Jane a rival, even if Jane still thinks the Green Goddess is a brand of tinned sweetcorn.