1970s TV star Aimi MacDonald says her career was derailed by false claims that she had an affair with disgraced Labour Cabinet minister John Stonehouse.
Ms MacDonald, 80, revealed the damaging impact of the claims ahead of an eagerly anticipated new TV drama.
The Glasgow-born actress, who appeared on TV comedy quiz Blankety Blank, was named in 1976 as a lover of Stonehouse, who faked his own death and went on the run in Australia.
Stonehouse, which will air early next year, tells how the former cabinet minister in the Wilson government carried out the audacious fraud in 1974 and ran off with his secretary Sheila Buckley.
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Ms MacDonald became embroiled in the scandal when Stonehouse’s bitter mistress Buckley claimed she was one of the ‘other women’ with whom he cheated on his wife, Barbara.
Matthew Macfadyen will take on the title role of Stonehouse in the three-part series which stars the actor’s real-life wife, Keeley Hawes, as Barbara.
‘I will certainly be watching the series to see how authentic it is,’ Ms MacDonald said.
‘I don’t think the Stonehouse thing did me any favours. I was upset about it. Somehow, I managed to get mixed up in all that sort of horror.
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