Miriam Margolyes OBE has revealed which ‘unfriendly’ celebrity she did not enjoy sitting with on Graham Norton‘s famous red sofa.
The actress is a frequent guest on the show, and on Saturday she opened up about one of the less favourable experiences she has had.
During the Hay Festival, Miriam, who has been interviewed by Graham Norton alongside the likes of Stanley Tucci and Matthew Perry, was asked which celebrities she dislikes by author Philippe Sands.
In a 2014 episode of BBC‘s The Graham Norton Show, Miriam, 83, was a guest alongside Dominic Cooper and Lily Allen.
Yet Miriam clashed with Lily, with the actress explaining: ‘She thought when she was on the programme that it was all about her.’
Miriam Margolyes, 83, has revealed which celebrity she did not enjoy sitting with on Graham Norton’s famous red sofa
During Saturday’s Hay Festival, Miriam was asked which celebrities she disliked, and revealed that of all the celebrities she has met on Graham Norton, she has only disliked Lily Allen
Miriam explained: ‘She thought when she was on the programme that it was all about her’ (pictured in 2014 with the third guest Dominic Cooper)
Miriam continued: ‘She thought: “Who is this woman? Miriam who?” She wasn’t friendly and I didn’t like that and so I showed my dislike, which wasn’t very nice of me because she was much younger than me and I should have just taught her how to behave.’
Miriam also credited The Graham Norton Show with helping make her ‘an enormous amount of money’ on personalised video app Cameo.
Lily, 39, is not the only celebrity to get on Miriam’s bad side.
Miriam also told Philippe that Monty Python star John Cleese ‘has become an a***hole’ while The Goodies’ Bill Oddie ‘is not a nice man’.
It comes after Miriam slammed famed comedian Steve Martin in 2023 after she starred in a film with with him in the Eighties.
The Harry Potter star worked with Martin on the 1986 movie Little Shop of Horrors, and claims the experience was ‘vile’ and described her American co-star as ‘unkind’.
‘I just thought he was rather horrid. He was a c***, that’s all I can tell you,’ she alleged in an interview with News.com.
Miriam explained she had to share a scene with Martin, now 78, in which he played a dentist and she was a receptionist.
In the scene, her character is ‘punched’ by Martin’s and she explained it took several takes before the funnyman was satisfied.
The 82-year-old Harry Potter star worked with Martin on the 1986 movie Little Shop of Horrors, and claims the experience was ‘vile’ and described her American co-star as ‘unkind’
Miriam described the Father of the Bride star, 78, as a ‘brilliant perfectionist,’ but she felt left out of the process.
‘I didn’t enjoy it and I had a splitting headache at the end of the day,’ she said. ‘[Steve Martin] was incredibly unfriendly, because he was a perfectionist.’
She did have some nice words for Martin though, calling him very ‘gifted’ and her scene in the finished film with him ‘very good’.
MailOnline has contacted Lily for comment.
