11 March 2003

Variety Club Awards 2003

Next came a clip of TV drama Tipping the Velvet, which centred on a lesbian heroine. Meera [Syal] told the men present that it was all right to drool "because it's art, innit?", before its star, a laughing Rachael Stirling, accepted The Sir James Carreras Award For Outstanding New Talent. The dark-haired beauty said of The Variety Club: "Long may it last."