That said, she admits that the idea of getting her kit off was, initially, more than just a tad daunting.

The songs are beautiful, Gary’s music is wonderful and Tim’s lyric’s and script are brilliant.” “Everything about this show appealed to me. I have never cried at a sofa in my life!” she declared. Lisa Maxwell, best known for starring in The Bill and as a panellist on TVs Loose Women, also recalls her first memory of the show, which was from an audience perspective. “David Pugh was my first ever producer! In 1984 he gave me my first opportunity in the world of proper grown-up theatre in Blood Brothers.” she says, smiling fondly at the memory.

“These women did something spectacular,” marvels Rebecca Storm who plays Chris and who not only grew up a stone’s throw from Rylstone, but has another coincidental link to the production. Over 5 million pounds later (and with post-performance collections for the charity Bloodwise still boosting that total as effectively as a Wonderbra) the calendar has taken its genteel subjects all over the world and spawned a film, a stage play and, most recently, a critically acclaimed musical. “At gunpoint, Ashraf Shah stripped me naked and raped me in front of his friends,” she said while seeking protection.Everyone knows the story: twenty years ago the women of Rylstone WI posed for a cheeky calendar to raise funds for a sofa at their local hospital – the hospital where Angela Baker’s husband John had his life cruelly cut short by Leukaemia. The actress told police that the suspect later kidnapped her from her house at gunpoint and took to his farm house in Shahdara, adding that four other men were also present there. “After facing over three years of blackmailing, I decided to get rid of him and I did not pick his phone call on November 2,” she said. The suspect had filmed the incident and blackmailed her for years, she said, adding that Shah also caused her divorce after he showed the video clips to her husband.

She alleged that the suspect, then, had served her intoxicated drink and sexually assaulted her after she fainted. Narrating the ordeal she faced, the survivor told cops that Shah had first raped her when she was invited to a function for performance by him in 2018. She also alleged that the main suspect, Ashraf Shah, also shoot a video clip of the harrowing incident to blackmail her.

Police have registered a First Information Report (FIR) after receiving a complaint from the victim, identified as Husna. LAHORE – A stage actress was allegedly raped after she was abducted by a man at gunpoint from her house, located in a housing society in the Punjab’s capital city.

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