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telegraph.co.uk - 20 days ago
Martine McCutcheon is heroine of her own novel
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Unabashed by Lynda La Plante's complaint to Mandrake last month about publishers paying vast sums to television personalities, Martine McCutcheon admits that she wrote her debut novel, The Mistress, in the hope that she could be chosen for the lead role in a potential screen adaptation.

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/Film — ... Martine McCutcheon, sometime tea lady to Prime Minster Hugh Grant and erstwhile Eastenders ragamuffin, has told The Telegraph that the lead character of her new novel The Mistress was created in the actress’ image to give herself an acting job. ...

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Film | guardian.co.uk — ... Actress Martine McCutcheon has revealed that she wrote her novel, The Mistress, in the hope it would be adapted for a film in which she could star. She told the press: "I deliberately made the lead character the supermodel version of me." ...