Occupation Actress Role Actress Children Louise Michelle Name Vicki Michelle | Parents Joan Michelle Years active 1972– Spouse Graham Fowler (m. 1974) | |
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Known for Role of Yvette Carte-BlancheRole of Patricia Foster Notable work Yvette Carte-Blanche in 'Allo 'Allo!Patricia Foster in Emmerdale Television 'Allo 'Allo! (1982–1992)Emmerdale (2007, 2008, 2009)I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (2014) Movies and TV shows 'Allo 'Allo!, I'm a CelebrityGet Me Out of, Virgin Witch, The Return of 'Allo 'Allo!, The Callback Queen Similar People Gorden Kaye, Carmen Silvera, Kim Hartman, Ann Michelle, Kirsten Cooke Profiles | ||
Devine encounters vicki michelle star of allo allo
Vicki Michelle MBE (born 14 December 1950) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Yvette Carte-Blanche in the BBC television comedy series 'Allo 'Allo! and as a recurring character Patricia Foster in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale.
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- Devine encounters vicki michelle star of allo allo
- Shane talks to vicki michelle 30 01 2014
- Early life
- Acting career
- Producer
- Honour
- Theatre
- Pantomime
- Personal life
- References
Shane talks to vicki michelle 30 01 2014
Early life
Her father was a fish-trader and her mother an actress. She attended Knewnham Junior School in Wanstead and West Hatch Technical High School. After O-levels she stayed on at school to complete a secretarial course. Hoping to become a ballet dancer she joined the Aida Foster stage school.
Acting career
Michelle was given small television roles while still at stage school, the first being in Dixon of Dock Green. She appeared in big-screen versions of popular English sitcoms The Likely Lads and George and Mildred, and played alongside her sister Ann Michelle in the British horror film Virgin Witch and with Joan Collins in Alfie Darling, the sequel to Alfie. She also appeared regularly in the 1970s children's BBC TV series Crackerjack. More recently, she played the role of Amanda Newman in the 2010 TV film Resentment, and she was Deborah Whitton in the 2013 rom com The Callback Queen. In the early 1980s she appeared in some high-profile advertisements for Harp Lager; the slogan was "Sally O'Brien and the way she might look at you", and there was surprise when it was discovered that the actress playing the Irish character Sally O'Brien was English, but with an Irish grandparent. Also at this time she had small parts in Minder and The Professionals and in 2007, she appeared in a Children in Need special of Hotel Babylon and, the following year, appeared on BBC's cookery programme Celebrity MasterChef.
After spending much of 2008 on tour with the 'Allo 'Allo! stage show, Michelle took a break to pursue various other projects, including appearing as the Wicked Queen in a pantomime production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Hull New Theatre. She rejoined the cast of 'Allo 'Allo! in March 2009, reprising her role as sexy waitress Yvette. Michelle made several appearances in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale as Patricia Foster, mother of Jonny Foster – a role which she reprised for two episodes in early 2009. In Autumn 2014, Michelle returned to the stage in the hit play 'Hello Norma Jeane' at London's Kings Head Theatre, where she took on the role of an Essex grandma who claims to be Marilyn Monroe.
Producer
In 2012, Michelle was executive producer of the film based on the Ray Cooney theatrical Run for Your Wife.
Honour
Michelle was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours for services to charity.
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Personal life
She is married to Graham Fowler.
In 2015, Michelle was a guest on Big Brother's Bit on the Side and feared she could have been blinded after being hit on the back of the head with a champagne glass thrown by Farrah Abraham during a fight between Abraham and Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace. She later pressed charges.
Vicki Michelle now suffers from the condition tinnitus.