She won the nation’s hearts as mum on the Oxo adverts from 1983 to 1999 but what are the Calendar Girls star’s favourite other commercial families?

PG Tips Chimps or Andrex puppies? The chimps. They are funnier.

Milky Bar kid or Yellow Pages mistletoe advert? I can’t remember the Yellow Pages one. The Milky Bar kid then.

Go Compare or meerkats on Compare the Market? Oh God. It has to be Go Compare. I think it’s clever that it is one of the most irritating adverts but you just can’t help yourself and go along with it.

Tony the Tiger of Buzzby from BT? Tony Tiger.

Dancing Citroen robot car or Nicole and Papa? The dancing robot. I think it’s clever. Nicole and Papa make you want to puke. It is so stereotypical French.

Lynda Bellingham stars in the final ever tour of Calendar Girls, which heads to Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre from Monday, February 13 to Saturday, February 18, 2012 and Dartford’s Orchard Theatre from Monday, April 30 to Saturday, May 5, 2012.