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RT: It’s good that you have something to fall back on, and that you haven’t sacrificed your education.
Liz: Yes, my mum wouldn’t have allowed it.

RT: Did your mum drive you into modelling?
Liz: No.

RT: So you didn’t have pushy parents?
I was pushed into stage school so I did every single dance lesson, modern and acting and singing, American jazz, I did every single lesson there is at stage school. So when I finished I was sent straight to the stage school at night.
I’d finish about 8 o’clock at night, every night, even Saturdays. My only day off was probably Sundays. My mum did probably push me to that but my mum didn’t really want me to work in show business. My mum for years kept saying to me ‘get a proper job’.

RT: Is your mum in show business?
Liz: No! The only link I did have with showbiz is that Catherine Zeta-Jones and I grew up in the same stage school. I think she’s about 6 or 7 years older than me and for everybody in my class, Catherine was used like a sort of mentor for all of us because at 15 she was doing the West End. She was up and coming and doing auditions and all of us in the classes below were told Catherine is doing this, all of you could be doing it too.

RT: So what do you enjoy the most, modelling, acting...?
Liz: I think TV. Although I am doing a play, it’s going to be my first acting part. It’s called Funk. Apparently, there’s a make-up brand or company called Funk and they’ve got together with screenwriters and scriptwriters to write this play. It’s going to be four days theatre and it centres around two cosmetic girls in a department store and it will be me, and I think they’re considering Jenny Powell. Basically we’re talking about our lives. I play the part of a girl, I think her name’s Ruth or something, where she’s late 20s, two kids, single mother, quite bitter, quite upset, she feels like she’s missed every opportunity in her life. You know people come to the counter and buy things like make-up and she’s really nice to them and then the next minute she’s bitching behind their back. It’s a funny kind of comedy script and I’ve got it, I’ve read it, I auditioned for it and now it’s just where it’s gonna be. I think it will be in either London or Manchester.

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