I don’t want to embarrass and upset people. The only time I’ve been moderate with expressing myself is when I was in America because my adorable Jewish agent said, ‘Miriam, you’re in America now, you can’t talk about being gay and all that stuff, just button up and don’t wear shorts.’” She did button up, hid the true Margolyes, and she failed – her 1992 TV series Frannie’s Turn was cancelled after five episodes. If I want to say something, I’m going to say it.” At 72 or 62, would she have given one? “Oh no. “What can I do? I have to say what I believe to be the truth,” she says. “Hehehe! Good, because that’s part of who I am.” And now, she says, is hardly the time to start holding back, whether it’s on Israel and Palestine, the Tories and Labour, Warren Beatty and Mick Jagger, or circumcision and smegma – just a few of the topics we touch on over the next couple of hours. With chapter titles such as The Joy of Bottoms, Adventures in Heavy Petting and Always Be a Cunt, I tell her fans of mucky Miriam are unlikely to feel short-changed. I don’t just want to be a foul-mouthed old biddy. But I think the things I say in it are again absolutely true, and perhaps more serious. “I don’t think it’s as rude as my first book, therefore I suspect it won’t do as well. She’s worried that Oh Miriam! is a little strait-laced. “‘Can I come back next week and bring my friends?’ he asked as he left.” What makes her so funny is that she tells these stories in a cut-glass, upper-class RP – every magnificently enunciated syllable sharp as a stab. And I said, ‘Would you like to follow me to my college and I’ll suck you off?’” Sure enough, he followed. She’s also famously filthy – perhaps most memorably telling the story, on Graham Norton’s show in 2011, of how, when riding her bike as a student in Cambridge, she stopped at the traffic lights by an open car with an American soldier inside. And the older she gets, the straighter she tells it. But I thought I cannot turn down such a huge amount of money because I’m going to need it for carers. They made me an offer I couldn’t refuse.” An advance of £250,000, seeing as you’re asking. Why did she feel the need to write it? “I have to say the reason I did it is exactly the same reason I did the first one. Whereas This Much Is True was a (relatively) conventional autobiography, Oh Miriam! is more of a self-help guide: Margolyes’s manifesto for a fulfilled life. Two years on, the actor, documentarian and raconteur extraordinaire has written another – of sorts. It does not store any personal data.It took Miriam Margolyes 80 years to write her memoir. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.
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