EMILY Atack says she’s ‘not a tart’ as she hits back at being ‘pigeonholed’ for having blonde hair. The 29-year-old rose to fame as Charlotte ‘Big Jugs’ Hinchcliffe on hit show The Inbe…
But since then, she has tried to calve out a career in comedy as well as acting, but doesn't feel like she has been taken seriously in the past., Emily said: "In America, funny women are allowed to be glamorous and funny, but over here, you’re not.
“I wear make-up, I have blonde hair — it p***es me off that I’m pigeonholed. You can still look like that and be taken seriously.Emily feels like shes been treated like a 'tart' in the pastThe 29-year-old thinks America has a better attitude towards female comics being glam compared to Britain- who is hitting the road with her new show Talk Thirty to Me - used comedy panel shows as an example, saying there's "a certain repression there'.
She said: "In the past I’ve been scared of panel shows because I always think I’m going to be labelled the blonde bimbo and everyone’s going to take the p*** out of me.” But Emily is hopeful times are changing, adding: “I feel if that were to happen now it would work in my favour — everyone would be like, ‘That’s such a dated way to host a show.
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