Miriam Margolyes leaves BBC Breakfast presenter Charlie Stayt red faced during cheeky interview By Laura Parkin For Mailonline Published: 08:42 EDT, 25 July 2024 | Updated: 08:44 EDT, 25 July 2024 e-mail View comments Miriam Margolyes left BBC Breakfast presenter Charlie Stayt red faced during a cheeky interview on Thursday morning. The actress, 83, joined the programme to discuss her upcoming live comedy show when things took a cheeky turn. Addressing her famously outspoken nature, Charlie said: 'I love that you say that the first half is Dickens, the second half is - the first word you used is sex.
I mean that's a pointer!' Miriam explained: 'People are always asking me about it! Even Louis Theroux , who is a very serious and important documentarian. 'When I had an interview with him, he just didn't go above the waist, he was below the waist the whole time. In the end, I had to sort of pull him up a bit.
' Miriam Margolyes left BBC Breakfast presenter Charlie Stayt red faced during a cheeky interview on Thursday morning The actress joined the programme to discuss her upcoming live comedy show when things took a cheeky turn 'You do have a reputation, which you may or may not like for being very open and sometimes using language that like on BBC Breakfast we wouldn't normally use,' Charlie replied. Miriam laughed: 'I've always been naughty and I've always used naughty words. Even when I was at school, as soon as I used a naughty word I used it because it made people laugh, because it got a reaction!' The interview comes after admitted thats she continues to work in her eighties because she fears that her future care bills are going to leave her destitute.
The actress, who suffers with spinal stenosis, told the Radio Times : ‘I’m worried that I won’t have enough money for carers when I finally get paralysed or whatever it is that’s going to happen to me.’ Spinal stenosis occurs when space around the spinal cord becomes too narrow, compressing the nerves. Margolyes main source of income is her television work.
She stars as Mother Mildred in Call the Midwife , has fronted numerous documentaries, and is also regular raconteur on the chat show circuit, sharing Graham Norton ’s sofa with the likes of musician will.i.am and the late Friends star Matthew Perry .
She also has a lucrative side hustle making videos for fans on the Cameo website, where she charges £100 for a special greeting clip from her, and estimates it has netted her a whopping £365,000 since 2020. Last year she earnt £250,000 for her memoir Oh Miriam! Speaking about her famously outspoken nature, Miriam laughed: 'I've always been naughty and I've always used naughty words. Even when I was at school, because it got a reaction!' The interview comes after admitted thats she continues to work in her eighties because she fears that her future care bills are going to leave her destitute.
(pictured in Call the Midwife) As well as acting she has a lucrative side hustle making videos for fans on the Cameo website, where she charges £100 for a special greeting clip from her, and estimates it has netted her a whopping £365,000 since 2020 Discussing her financial woes, the Harry Potter star added: ‘I’m saving up cash so that I can pay people to look after me and my partner. We don’t have children, so I need to make sure I’m going to be looked after in the way that I’ve become accustomed.’ Margolyes, who has been with her partner Heather since 1968, lives in Clapham, south London.
Her latest TV project, a three-part BBC travel series titled Miriam Margolyes: a New Australian Adventure out in August, will see the fearless thespian traveling around on a mobility school. Last year, Margolyes underwent major heart surgery to replace her aortic valve and it made her reflect on her own mortality. She said: ‘I’m always quoting William Saroyan, who says: 'I know that everyone has to die, but I thought an exception might be made in my case.
' I know now that is definitely not true.’ Louis Theroux BBC Breakfast Charlie Stayt Share or comment on this article: Miriam Margolyes leaves BBC Breakfast presenter Charlie Stayt red faced during cheeky interview e-mail Add comment.
