Stacey Dooley is the television documentary-maker who was selling perfume at Luton airport’s duty-free shop – fun, even when Calvin Klein Eternity was on promotion, which is “disgusting” – and she might still be selling perfume at Luton airport (“no bad thing”), had she not been discovered by Danny Cohen, who was at the time controller of BBC Three. When she first started broadcasting, she wasn’t to everyone’s taste. Some people, I remind her, can be very stupid. One critic, she remembers, wrote, “Once you get past the accent …” Some critics, I remind her, can also be very stupid. You’ve just won…

Source: The Times February 09, 2019 00:01 UTC