HOW BATLEY AND LA COMPARE

PRETTY AS A PICTURE: Gail, who featured in films such as Hard To Die (below left), loves LA but lives on outskirts, right Batley: 38,500 LA: 4 million Batley:

Robert Edwards, Nobel Prize-winning co-developer of IVF ●Archbishop Arthur Roche, Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments at the Vatican

Jo Cox, Labour MP murdered by a far-Right activist in 2016

LA:

Louis B Mayer, movie mogul Walt Disney, animator Ronald Reagan, actor and later US President Leonardo DiCaprio, film star James Dean, teen icon Marilyn Monroe, screen siren

Batley:

Batley town centre, home of Tesco, Iceland and Asda

LA:

Rodeo Drive, home of Tiffany, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Prada and Dior.

Batley: 33 inches LA: 14.9 inches

except for what was already online,” she says. “But my horses were saved, and now I'm rebuilding, but it hasn't been easy. I miss England, and visit family in Batley every year. I love LA, but I miss the English countryside, its history and heritage, all the ancient castles.”

Thackray signed a deal in late 2017 with Harvey Weinstein to turn her life into a scripted TV series, which would have made her a household name. “A week later, Weinstein's sex scandal exploded and he became a Hollywood pariah,” she says. “His company collapsed, and my deal died with it. It was unbelievably bad timing. The only silver lining was that we weren't in business together long enough for Harvey to try to get into my pants.

“But the idea for a TV series about my life hasn't disappeared. I now have two new offers to turn my life into a TV series, so it'll happen.”

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