{"id":328130,"date":"2026-03-04T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/328130\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:00:09","slug":"popstar-turned-actor-kym-marsh-i-was-called-fat-on-live-television-which-wouldnt-happen-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/328130\/","title":{"rendered":"Popstar turned actor Kym Marsh: \u2018I was called fat on live television, which wouldn\u2019t happen now\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAs in-demand actor Kym Marsh comes to Ireland with the stage adaptation of \u2018Single White Female\u2019, she reflects on her reality TV experience, talks about how the updated tale of a stalker has even more resonance in the digital age and challenges outdated female stereotypes\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Actress Kym Marsh, who is set to play Hedy in the stage adaptation of Single White Female at the Gaiety in Dublin. Photo: Nick James\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ Credit_ Nick James.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Actress Kym Marsh, who is set to play Hedy in the stage adaptation of Single White Female at the Gaiety in Dublin. Photo: Nick James<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Kym Marsh has just shocked me with a revelation \u2013 she\u2019s never had a housemate from hell. I\u2019ve just spent several minutes detailing a mere handful of horror stories from my own experience \u2013 the one who would never empty the bin, the one who wouldn\u2019t stop playing Hawaiian music, the frugal one who turned the radiators off in February and hid all the knobs so we couldn\u2019t turn the heat back on \u2013 only for her to give a sympathetic laugh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI\u2019ve never had a roommate, so it\u2019s never been something that\u2019s happened to me,\u201d she chuckles. \u201cI had children when I was 18, so I shared my house with my children. I\u2019ve always lived either with the children\u2019s father or on my own with the kids, so I\u2019ve never had a housemate ever. The kids are enough!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As in-demand actor Kym Marsh comes to Ireland with the stage adaptation of \u2018Single White Female\u2019, she reflects&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6361],"class_list":["post-328130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}