Garden Rescue star Charlie Dimmock once bared all for a very raunchy role – after confessing to an affair with her co-star.
The gardening expert, who became known as ‘the braless one’ after neglecting to wear a bra while digging up soil and planting seeds, wanted a change of scene in 2012 when she decided to star in the UK tour of Calendar Girls. t the time, she took over from Emmerdale ’s Gemma Atkinson.
It was reported at the time that Charlie would fully strip off for the play, based on Tim Firth’s screenplay from the iconic film. In one racy promo snap for the role, Charlie went naked behind a very neatly pruned bush and took a pair of metal pruners to her foliage – with a bright sunflower where one nipple would be.
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Charlie confessed at the time: “Me being naked with the other girls was quite horrifying because they are all proper actors and I’m not. It was simply a case of, ‘Here’s a glass of champagne, can you take all your clothes off now?’
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“It would be a fib to say I wasn’t expecting it because we all know what the show is and we all know what happens. But it is so well choreographed, the audience doesn’t see anything.” Charlie said that neglecting to wear a bra on-screen helped prepare her for the theatre, confessing: “I was never considered sexy before and I don’t see how just being on TV made me more attractive.”
She theorised her braless antics might have even prompted producer David Pugh to approach her for the role, joking: “I would be stupid to think he approached me because he thought I might be a fantastic actor.”
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Thankfully, the gardening expert already had some experience in posing naked, having recreated Botticelli’s Venus for a Radio Times shoot. She’s also posed nude in a bath full of popcorn and on a hotel bed in only high heels and strategically placed rose petals.
She told Daily Mail: “Nudity is not something I’m naturally comfortable with. For the Botticelli shoot I wasn’t naked – I was in a flesh-coloured body stocking. And the rose petal shoot was frightening because it was meant to be about frocks. Then three boxes arrived filled with petals – and no dresses. All I had on was a mad pair of heels.
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“But for Calendar Girls, I’ve gone further than I ever imagined I would. I did that on the first publicity photo shoot when they said: ‘Right, take your clothes off now.’ I needed to drink a lot of wine when I got home that night.”
Charlie has taken to wearing a bra in her later years, confessing her “breasts have travelled southwards”. She didn’t even bank on anyone noticing her perky boobs back in the days – admitting her co-stars Tommy Walsh and Alan Titchmarsh “never even noticed” she’d gone braless.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
