Sunday Magazine – August 04, 2019

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nodding along, it’s probably better to say no

rather than yes because you don’t know what

you’re agreeing to. But now I wear my little

helpers and everything is just a little bit clearer.”

Sherrie is very honest and vocal about the

work she has had done on her face over the

years. “I used to have Botox but at my age it

stops working. Besides, it was making me

look like this” – she uses a well-manicured

nail to lift her eyebrows up alarmingly so she

looks like Spock. “I also used to have this

filler in my cheeks and it was done with a

cannula like this” – she mimes an abrupt

stabbing in her cheek and screams. “The pain

is unbelievable. You go, ‘Oh my God. It does

lift your face up though and you end up looking

really good. I had something injected near my

eyes, too, but it left me with a funny lump.

I wouldn’t do it again.”

So many celebrities we talk to claim to be

au naturel, we tell her.

She flicks her hand away dismissively, “You

can’t do that. You look at people that are in

their eighties who look like this” – she pulls

her skin back in the style of a rather scary

looking facelift – “and say they’ve never had

anything done. ‘It’s the cream,’ they say.”

She leans in closer. “Actually, what I’d like

is my neck lifted. I told my granddaughter

Molly the other day that I was going to have

this done,” she grins and hoiks the skin on her

neck upwards. “She said, ‘Oh my God, you’re

going to be terrifying, Nana. Now you haven’t

got a neck.’”

It is clear her grandchildren play a pivotal

role in Sherrie’s life.

“I love Sunday lunch with my family. I haven’t

cooked for years,” she reveals. “But when I had

my restaurant (she and her former husband used

to run a place in Richmond, southwest London)

I did cook loads. I do a very nice mackerel pâté,

it’s beautiful even if I do say so myself.

“Life now is just being with the children

really. I don’t think of me. If there’s a chance in

my life I can be with them, then that’s what I’ll

do. Being a grandma is what I live for. They’re

a reason I get up in the morning, they’re the

reason my heart beats.”

Sherrie is working with Specsavers to help

remove the stigma associated with hearing loss.

For further information or to book a hearing

check, go to specsavers.co.uk/hearing.

In Corrie with

Johnny Briggs,

who played

Mike Baldwin,

and Ken Morley as

Reg Holdsworth

Sherrie and

the cast of

Russ Abbot’s

Saturday

Madhouse

in 1985

In Emmerdale

with Deena

Payne as Viv Hope

Playing

Benidorm’s

Joyce

Temple-

Savage

Loose Women regulars Kaye Adams, Jane Moore,

Sherrie and Nadia Sawalha in 2015

ITV / SHUTTERSTOCK

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“I used to have

Botox, but at my age

it stops working”

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