I'll just say whatever comes, which is perfect for podcasts'

Sherrie Hewson on hoping to return to Benidorm, why celebs shouldn't complain and her exciting new podcast

- SAM ELLIOTT

British TV legend Sherrie Hewson is waiting for the call to bring the hit comedy Benidorm back - and admits that she wouldn’t say no to a return to Coronation Street, either.

Sherrie turned 75 recently, but as she tells us in an exclusive chat, she isn’t interested in taking her foot off the gas. In fact, she’s just launched her very own podcast called Very Very Sherrie.

She says she “couldn't care less” about her age - in fact, she laughs, it’s driving her forward.

She’s eager to reprise her Benidorm role as feisty manager of the Solana hotel, Joyce Temple-Savage, and confesses it would be “incredible” to return to her much-loved character Maureen Holdsworth in Corrie at some point, too.

Sherrie says, “We're always the last to know when it comes to Benidorm. But wouldn't it be brilliant? It would be fabulous, wouldn’t it? It still gets great ratings, you know. I sit and watch it all the time! I don’t know the answer to whether it’s ever coming back but of course, I’m up for it.

“I was lucky because Joyce was a brilliantly written part. Derren Litten [Benidorm’s creator] could really write for women, and you can’t say that about a lot of people. He wrote that part and it was such an amazing gift. I had so many incredible years on that show - five months in Benidorm every year, you can’t get better than that, can you?

I’d jump on the plane now if they were bringing it back.”