I WAS A 70s PORN STAR
she won’t be sitting down to watch it after Christmas dinner with her partner Heather Sutherland. “I never watch programmes I am in,” she says.
Mildred’s arrival at Nonnatus House with four Chinese orphans comes as a surprise.
In the storyline, the youngsters had fled China and were found aban- doned in Hong Kong before being adopted in the UK as part of the World Refugee Project. The unexpected visitors – along with their chaperone Mildred – will bring both festive joy and chaos to Nonnatus House as the midwives are run off their feet caring for Poplar’s expectant mums.
Also joining as new cast members are ITV Harlots star Fenella Woolgar, 49, as Sister Hilda, The Last Kingdom’s Ella Bruccoleri as Sister Frances and Waterloo Road’s Georgie Glen, 62, as the surgery’s new receptionist, Miss Higgins.
As the eighth series begins in the New Year, fans will see Judy Parfitt put in some stellar performances are Sister Monica battling dementia.
Judy’s husband Tony died from the illness in 2001, but she says she’s taken no inspiration from real life.
“Dementia is not one thing, it has many strands,” she says. “My husband had vascular dementia. You can go along quite normally and then if you get ill, stressed, worried or frightened, the chain breaks. You just lose the plot. It’s a very complex illness. Every dementia is different.
“My husband’s dementia belonged to him. I don’t think about that when I’m playing it.”
Judy, 83, claims Call The Midwife is the “best show on television”.
And we’re the most viewed, regardless of what all the headlines are about Poldark,” she adds.
“We’re on 10.8million. It’s very infuriating when in all the newspapers it says Poldark is the top show. I’m in the top show.”
ON HER AUDIO SOFT PORN CAPER