Denise: I was told I was too fat for telly

CORONATION Street seductress Denise Black has revealed how, as a young actress, she was told by people in TV:

- BY SUE CRAWFORD

"You've got a lovely face. It's a shame about your body." She earned millions of fans during her five years on the cobbles playing hairdresser Denise Osbourne, who had an affair with Ken Barlow.

But she says some agents and producers wrote her off as "too fat" or "too disabled" to be doing her job.

Denise, 67, was born with a condition in the muscles of her right arm, causing her fingers to cross over each other.

She says: "I'm not going to name the TV companies, but I've been told I'm too fat for television, I'm too disabled for television.