1. The eldest of four daughters, Michelle was born in Chigwell, Essex.
33 Facts About Vicki Michelle
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Vicki Michelle's father Joseph was a fish trader at Billingsgate Fish Market and her mother Shirley an actress.
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Vicki Michelle attended Knewnham Junior School in Wanstead and then West Hatch Technical High School.
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Vicki Michelle was given small television roles while still at stage school, the first being in Dixon of Dock Green.
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Vicki Michelle followed this with an uncredited appearance dancing at a party in The Haunted House of Horror, and a role in the play Play It Again, Sam with Dudley Moore in the West End from 1969 to 1970.
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Vicki Michelle had a starring role alongside her sister Ann in the horror film Virgin Witch before appearing with Joan Collins in Alfie Darling, the sequel to Alfie.
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Vicki Michelle then appeared in big-screen versions of English sitcoms The Likely Lads as a hitch-hiker with Penny Irving and George and Mildred as a girl in bed with the vicar.
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Vicki Michelle appeared regularly in the 1970s children's BBC TV series Crackerjack.
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In 1978, Vicki Michelle appeared in the film The Greek Tycoon opposite Anthony Quinn; her role was initially larger than that in the finished film.
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Croft had remembered Vicki Michelle playing the French maid robot in an episode of his previous sitcom Come Back Mrs Noah and offered her the role.
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Vicki Michelle played Yvette in all eighty-five episodes of the series from 1982 to 1992 as well as reprising the role in numerous stage plays based on the series.
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Vicki Michelle appeared as Betty, a Cockney barmaid, in three episodes of The Kenny Everett Television Show.
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In 1985, Vicki Michelle toured in a production of Doctor in the House with Robin Askwith, Frazer Hines and Windsor Davies.
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In 1996, Vicki Michelle played Lucy Westenra in a production of Dracula alongside Leslie Grantham in the title role.
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Vicki Michelle played the role of Amanda Newman in the 2010 TV film Resentment.
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In 2014, Vicki Michelle returned to the stage in the hit play Hello Norma Jeane at London's King's Head Theatre, where she took on the role of an Essex grandma who claims to be Marilyn Monroe.
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In 2014, Vicki Michelle was cast to play the role of Dr Victoria Spencer in Spencer Hawken's 2016 film No Reasons.
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In 2017, Vicki Michelle appeared in the gangster film Rise of the Footsoldier 3 and the short film Grimaldi: The Funniest Man in the World with The Chuckle Brothers.
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In 2020, Vicki Michelle made her first appearance in the sitcom radio and podcast series Barmy Dale.
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In February 2023, it was announced that Vicki Michelle would be joining the BBC One soap opera EastEnders in spring 2023 for a short guest stint.
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Vicki Michelle is actively involved in many charities and good causes.
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Vicki Michelle was the longest-serving president of The Heritage Foundation and is the current president of the eastern region of the Lady Taverners.
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Vicki Michelle is an Executive Committee Member of the Royal Variety Charity.
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Vicki Michelle has presented the Soldering On Awards since 2016.
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Vicki Michelle is a regular campaigner for Ban Trophy Hunting, Acting For Others, the Mane Chance Horse Sanctuary, Autism's Got Talent and supports the armed forces charities Blind Veterans UK, the RAF Benevolent Fund, Pathfinders and Nowzad Dogs.
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Vicki Michelle has been broadcasting a weekly chat show on Brentwood radio station Phoenix FM since October 2017, with celebrity guests including Rick Wakeman, Harry Redknapp, John Challis, Ray Cooney, Linda Lusardi and Robin Askwith.
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In 2012, Vicki Michelle was executive producer of the film based on the Ray Cooney theatrical production Run for Your Wife.
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Vicki Michelle is married to Graham Fowler, a cinematographer, whom she married in 1974.
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Vicki Michelle and Fowler have one daughter, Louise, born in 1989 who is an actress, known as Louise Michelle.
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In September 2015, Vicki 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.
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Vicki Michelle was hospitalised and suffered from whiplash, concussion and balance issues.
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Vicki Michelle was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 Birthday Honours for her services to charity.
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Vicki Michelle was made a Dame of the Sovereign Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem Knights of Malta in 2012.