Decades after being wrapped up in the John Stonehouse scandal, 1970s TV star Aimi MacDonald has said that her own career was derailed by what unfolded.
Back in 1974 the Labor Cabinet minister faked his own death and then fled to Australia after being wrapped up in plenty of complex dealings.
Aside from embarking on an extra marital affair with his secretary, Sheila Buckley, he also acted as a spy for the Czech Secret Service in the 1960s and also deliberately stole the identity of a recently deceased constituent to start his new life.
But while he met up with and later married his mistress after fleeing, she dragged Aimi into the messy affair when naming her as another one of the politician’s lovers – a claim the actress has always denied.
Now, as the scandal is set to screen on TV in a new mini-series which stars Matthew Macfadyen and Keeley Hawes, Aimi has spoken out about the sordid affair and how it changed her life.
Born in Glasgow, Aimi was a popular fixture on British TV in the 1970s, most notably alongside John Cleese and Graham Chapman on At Last the 1948 Show.
But she became embroiled in the scandal when Sheila wrongly accused her of being another of Stonehouse’s mistresses.
Aimi, 80, has now said that it had a detrimental impact on her career, but she would be tuning into the series to see how it retells the scandal.
‘I will certainly be watching the series to see how authentic it is,’ she told the Daily Mail.
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