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Joanna Page was told she wasn’t “pretty enough” and to “change her accent” for an acting job.

The 46-year-old shared details about life working as an actress and gave insight into the “brutal” industry.

Appearing on ITV’s Loose Women, the on-screen star shared she was asked to spruce up her image if she wanted to progress through the audition process.

Joanna explained: “I had an audition and I’d been back about nine times and it was going really good.

“And then they said to my agent, ‘Could you please tell her that we just don’t think she’s pretty enough before the next callback? And to go to the department store and get them to do her makeup and everything and then come to the audition.'”

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She continued: “I went back and that still wasn’t good enough and then they said ‘We’re worried about her accent, can she then go and have coaching?’

“And then I had the coaching and then I got the part.”

Joanna didn’t reveal the role she was auditioning for at the time, but explained how she sometimes struggled with rejection of the industry.

The actress concluded: “The worse thing is not finding out that you haven’t got the job until actually, you’re seeing it on the TV and then you go, ‘Oh gosh, this is why I didn’t get the part’.”

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Ruth Langsford then interjected to say: “I think for me, I deal I probably deal better with disappointment as I’ve got older because it’s a maturity thing, isn’t it?

“So when you’re young and you’ve built up all your expectations, whether it is a boyfriend you want or a dress that you’re hoping to fit into and then it doesn’t happen – you’re crushed.

“But I think as life teaches, you know, there are disappointments in life. And I get better at dealing with it.”

Loose Women airs weekdays on ITV at 12:30pm.

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