Jan Harvey

This actress played her fashionable namesake Jaan Howard in all six series off the so-called Thatcheritee drama. Referring to the television fashion icon of the ’80s, she once said, “When fashion became a big part of it, there were whole groups of women who would phone each other up after the show trying to spot which designer I was wearing in each scene.”

After Howards’Way,

Jan had spent two years in the soap opera Family

Affairs as Babs Woods and joined the Calendar

Girls theatre tour as Annie. Her last major TV role was as Sharon

Watts’ aunt in

EastEnders (20152016). MW