Danniella Westbrook says she doesn't pay her TV licence and has 'never watched EastEnders' - despite being BBC 'homegrown'. The former actress used to play Sam Mitchell on the soap.
The 48-year-old blasted the broadcaster, saying it 'doesn't really work for the working classes'. Speaking on GB News, she said: "To be perfectly honest, I don't pay a TV licence, so I don't watch the BBC. Long, long gone are the days of Only Fools and Horses and great comedy and great drama that they made.
"For me, personally, I find their morning breakfast show very stuffy. It just doesn't appeal to me." She said she often finds herself flipping through other channels which she thinks have "more and different opinions on them".
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Danniella played Sam Mitchell in the BBC soap on and off between 1990 until 2016. She says that there has been a shift since then, BirminghamLive reports. Adding: "Back in the late 80s, early 90s, it was a very fun and free place to work and it was very good and very fair.
"But I think nowadays it’s a lot more stuffy and it is what it is." The actress continued: “It doesn't really work for the working classes I don't think.
"Also, I don't really tend to associate or agree with a channel that advocates a person like Jimmy Savile over young people and actors and people coming up through the ranks that suffered at the hands of this abuser. I can't condone it, I'm sorry.”
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