was traumatised when her dad saved her from being burnt alive in a - because she saw his willy for the first time. The comic’s electric blanket had malfunctioned and threatened to burst into flames. Her saved the family from potential death, leaping out of bed to throw the dodgy electrics out of the nearest window.
But Dawn says rather than her near death experience, she was more horrified by the sight of her dad naked for the first time. The Vicar of Dibley star explained that the narrow escape came when her father Denys was posted with the family in RAF quarters. Dawn said: “I woke up in the night.
And I smelt this very weird smell in my room. It smelt of cheese and the bottom part of my bed was very hot. Wherever I put my feet it was just hot.
“I got out of bed and waddled to my parents’ bedroom and said to my parents in the darkness ‘Oh my bedroom smells of cheese, my bed’s all hot’. “My father jumped out of bed. This was a very alarming moment that I will never forget in my life - because he was naked - and it’s the first time I’d seen my dad’s willy.
“That was the shocking thing for me. “My dad ran into my bedroom, opened the window, and he got hold of my mattress off my little bed and threw it out of the window. “And as it went out of the window the whole thing went up in flames, because my little electric blanket, all the pipes had mushed together and it was melting and it was about to go up in flames.
“If I’d been in that bed much long.