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Apparently much more traumatic than her parents’ split was the news that she would have to leave the theatre school because her mum and dad could no longer pay. She was enrolled for a week or two at a local secondary school, which she hated. ‘I cried so much,’ she later said. All ended well when she was awarded a scholarship back to Sylvia’s.

By this time Emma and her mum had moved to a third-floor flat on a small estate in Rogers Walk. There was no garden so Emma and her friends would spend a lot of time in the local park. One of her best friends as a young teenager was Kellie Bright, then another budding actress. They would spend weekends at Alexandra Palace in North London, roller-skating or messing about in the rowing boats on the lake. Much later Kellie would become one of the best-known faces on British TV playing Linda Carter, landlady of the Queen Vic pub in Albert Square.

Another classmate was star actress Keeley Hawes, the daughter of a London cab driver, who lived in a three-bedroom council flat practically across the road from the school in Marylebone. She and Emma were London girls and became firm friends; Keeley was a welcome guest at the caravan in Clacton. She, too, had won a scholarship to Sylvia Young’s. In those days she didn’t sound anything like her famous creations, Mrs Durrell in The Durrells or the home secretary, Julia Montague, in Bodyguard . A series of elocution lessons gave her the cut-glass vowels of one of television’s most recognisable voices.

When she left Sylvia Young’s, though, she became a model before her breakthrough as an actress, and didn’t need to speak. She had been working in the fashion department of Cosmopolitan

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