Two soups... & one theatre

Victoria Wood honoured by stage bosses in Lake District

- BY MARK JEFFERIES Showbiz Editor

COMEDY legend Victoria Wood is to have a theatre named in her honour in her beloved Lake District.

The 260-seat Old Laundry Theatre in Bowness-on-Windermere has announced it is to become the Victoria Wood Theatre from January.

The comedian, who was famed for sketches including “two soups” and died in 2016 aged 62, opened the theatre and staged several of her own works there, including her play Talent in 2008 and a stage version of Housewife, 49 in 2013.

Victoria had a cottage in nearby Ambleside which she left to her children Grace and Henry.

Her will instructed them not to sell it “so long as it’s enjoyed by family”.