Paula Wilcox: ‘More sex, money or fame? How sad to have to choose. Let’s have it all’

The actor on becoming a celebrity after Coronation Street, her weakness for Bovril, and why she wants a helicopter Born in Manchester, Paula Wilcox, 76, moved to London aged 17 to join the National Youth Theatre and was cast in Jack Rosenthal’s 1970 television sitcom The Lovers, which ran for two series and became a film. She also appeared in The Liver Birds, Man About the House and Miss Jones and Son, and she played two characters in Coronation Street. On stage she starred in Shirley Valenti...

By Rosanna Greenstreet