Now 82, she has spinal stenosis and describes herself as having soured since that book: “I am beginning to feel like a lonely, stout promontory surrounded by corpses. Margolyes says that she enjoys appearing on morning shows as “egos are less in evidence”, and name-checked This Morning as one she “particularly enjoyed”. is similarly hard to define – a mix of celebrity memoir, sex advice column and anti-Tory soapbox, it demonstrates the loose-cannon plain talk that has endeared her to millions, while pushing back against her caricature.

From declaring my love to Vanessa Redgrave to being fed cockroaches by Steve Buscemi, from turnip-based comedy with Blackadder to being farted on by Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Graham Norton's sofa to Alan Cumming's campervan, my life has been (and continues to be) a riotous adventure. I don't hate it that she does that, but the language is stronger and more frequent than my own and I do wonder how much of it is because she enjoys shocking people (which I don't, personally, and that can make me feel a little uncomfortable at times). Much like delicious finger food at a buffet often leaves you feeling satisfied but still wanting more, so too with Oh Miriam! Wij, Yahoo, maken deel uit van de Yahoo-groep van merken De sites en apps die wij bezitten en exploiteren, waaronder Yahoo en AOL, en onze digitale advertentiedienst Yahoo Advertising. Margolyes says that she encountered Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger after working with his ex Sophie Dahl in a 2001 production of The Vagina Monologues.John Murray says it is already in the planning stages of a huge marketing and publicity campaign, and a 23-date tour across the UK and Ireland in partnership with FANE has been announced, with tickets on sale from Friday 2nd December.

And with a castlist that stretches from Churchill to di Caprio, Dahl to Dietrich, Princess Margaret to Maggie Smith, I've got so much more to tell you and so much more to say.Margolyes, who has increasingly become known for her candid anecdotes during her TV interviews, has not held back in the book, which is out now. The actor says she developed “a schoolgirl crush” on Redgrave, writing: “I was ‘cracked’ on her just like being back at Oxford High School. Let Miriam take the lead and enjoy the show' RHIK SAMADDER, Observer 'Insanely interesting, full of profanity and profundity, Oh Miriam!

There were less stories told and more opinions, which if you see a couple of interviews you'll know what's already in the book. I’m lesbian, I’m short, I’m fat, I’m Jewish, I’m Dickensian,” rattles off Miriam Margolyes, fully aware no string of identity markers could capture her uniqueness. I was worried it would be a rehash of stories told in her previous book but was pleased that this was a different kind of read.Margolyes hasn’t been drunk since a university sherry party in 1960 and isn’t interested in popular culture.

More often than not, multi-volume autobiographies fail to live up to the freshness and insights of the first volume in my experience.She saltily updates the Proust Questionnaire, a Victorian parlour game that prompts discussion about overrated virtues and personal mottoes. She has a musical ear: a van carrying chattering actresses to the set of prison drama Scrubbers is “a hop-picking charabanc”; a treacherous floater laid in the toilet of Chernobyl actor Jared Harris a “cloacal bundle”. She says Scorsese and the assembled crew’s reaction was a “stunned” and “dazed silence”, which quickly turned “into roars of laughter” and ultimately, according to Margolyes, “gratitude”.