Benidorm star Crissy Rock has set the record straight on reports that she is ‘living like a nomad’ and couch-surfing with friends.
The Liverpudlian, 66, is best known as Janey Yorke from the ITV sitcom, but is now touring the country talking about her transition from acting to stand-up in the show An Evening with Crissy Rock: From Bedlam to Benidorm.
Crissy made headlines over the weekend that she is ‘living from couch to couch’ and that her wardrobe is the boot of her car – which she has told the Metro she said in jest during an interview.
Crissy has now clarified that she does have a permanent home in Norfolk, which she shares with her husband Julian Buck, who she married the same year Benidorm ended in 2018.
Crissy went on to explain that the nomadic lifestyle she referred to in an interview with The Express was only temporary while she’s on tour, driving herself from city to city to perform her one-woman show, which she said is ‘part and parcel’ of being a jobbing comedian.
The performer explained that while at first she found the reaction funny, she then realised that it ‘could have an impact on her tour’ if people make the wrong assumption about her living situation.
‘I did say that my boot of my car is like a wardrobe, because when you’re on tour, you have to take suitcases with you. I am like a nomad because I’m on tour. I’m up and down the country, all over the place.
‘That’s what you do when you’re on tour, you live in the suitcase. We don’t live in a cardboard box.’
She continued: ‘You have to go where the work is, so it’s not like you just sit there and go, “Oh, I can’t be bothered going there”.’
Crissy has her next show on Thursday, in which she talks about her life since Benidorm ended.
The sitcom ran for 10 seasons and 74 episodes before its finale in 2018. Benidorm focused on the Solana Resort, following various holidaymakers as they decamped to the Spanish city, and has since found a second life on Netflix.
Benidorm boss Derren Litten confirmed earlier this year that he is in talks with ITV over a possible show reboot, which Crissy said would be ‘fabulous’ if it went ahead.
‘That would be wonderful for the people who watch it as well,’ she said. ‘It’d be wonderful if they asked me to come back into it. Maybe me and Sherrie (Hewson, who played Joyce Temple-Savage on the sitcom) could lock horns and become rival manageresses of different parts of the venue.’
Crissy went on to acknowledge that certain elements of the show would have to change, after it featured outdated stereotypes and crude jokes.
‘You couldn’t say certain things that they said years ago,’ said Crissy. ‘I’m not the writer, so I wouldn’t know how they would go about it.
‘People spoke like that years ago, but you wouldn’t do it now.’
Benidorm is available to stream on Netflix and ITVX.
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