Hell's Kitchen: Amanda Barrie tries to slap Gordon Ramsay in 2004
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Amanda Barrie, 86, is best known for playing Alma Halliwell in Coronation Street for 20 years. She made headlines in 2004 after her explosive appearance on Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen.
Tensions arose when Gordon asked a flustered Amanda to go for a chat and asked her what was wrong.
She angrily responded that she was “absolutely exhausted” because of the “silly hours”.
Gordon then told her that she knew what she was signing up for when she agreed to take part in the show and accused her of “showing off” by raising her voice in front of the other celebrities.
She then flew into a rage shouting: “How bloody, f***ing dare you!” She then raised her hand to punch Gordon in the face.
Gordon grabbed her hand before she could hit him and the other cooks intervened to try and calm her down.
Now, 17 years later, Amanda says she doesn’t regret her outburst.
The actress told the Daily Star: “I’ll never live that down. If it had been a bit harder it would have been better.”
Amanda then maintained that she has “never hit anyone unless it was well deserved” and says “it’s never the way you see it, there’s always a backstory”.
She continued: “I mean it looked at that point as if I was cross at that moment, but it was a long build up.
“I’d just gone flat on my back in an ice room which I’d warned him about six, eight times.
“So when he called me over at that moment I wasn’t supposed to be in that shot and I think I just lost my rag because I’d just had a really bad fall.”
The Corrie legend repeated that she doesn’t regret the punch because Gordon has got “that sort of face” and joked that she doesn’t think he will ask her to open one of his restaurants “anytime soon”.
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Amanda’s decades-long career kicked off in 1961 with West End appearances in Cabaret, Private Lives, Hobson’s Choice and Aladdin.
She then starred in two Carry On films and became a household name after landing the role as Alma in Coronation Street.
She played Alma from the early-1980s until 2001 when the character died from cervical cancer.
Amanda’s other TV appearances include Doctors, ITV prison series Bad Girls and The Real Marigold Hotel.
In 2018, Amanda also took part in Celebrity Big Brother alongside Ann Widdecombe, Rachel Johnson and India Willoughby.
She lasted 29 days in the house before she was evicted, finishing in sixth place.
Now she is preparing to play the Fairy Godmother in the pantomime of Cinderella at the Queen’s Theatre in Barnstaple, Devon.
The pantomime will run from December 10 to December 31, 2021.
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