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plplayed by John Challis, and they had their own spin- off series The Gr Green e Green Grass. Y Yet Marlene’s 18 year spell in Only Fools almost never happene happened.

Origina Originally, Boycie’s missus wa was intended to exist off-scree off-screen.

She said: “I’m probably the luckiest actress i in the business. I was pregnant and an I got the call out of the blue to d do a day’s work on Only Fools and Horses.

“Three series had gone out and Boycie would say say, ‘ Oi, do you remember Marlene?’ Marle and then

they’d say, ‘All th the boys remember Marlene!’ so I knew she was a tarty number married to a second-hand car dealer but it was just going to be a morning’s work.

“John Sullivan had always imagined Marlene to be a bit like ‘Her Indoors’, the character George Cole was married to in Minder, but they thought viewers could see her for a minute.

“But John wrote such an adorable scene, and a couple of weeks later he rang up and said, ‘ We like Marlene, I think we’ll have her back’. That was the day that really changed my life.

“Who’d have thought that, all these years later, they’d still be showing Only Fools and Horses every single day?”

Sue loves her role on Still Open

All Hours, especially as writer Roy Clarke has penned a steamy romance between Mrs Rossi and Mr Newbold, played by Geoffrey Whitehead, where the couple go punting and on a picnic. Sue said: “It’s very important we do this because I’m 70 and Geoffrey’s 80, they have a very passionate affair.

“It is good to remind people that even though w passion Mrs Ros we’re ju

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