She said, “If I could go back in time, I’d tell myself to stay at school, keep your mouth shut and learn. And save all your money.”

Sharon, who had a gastric band fitted in 1999 to help her lose weight, also revealed she developed her loud persona as a way to defend herself from jibes about her size, resulting in people thinking she was a “b***h”.

She told Good Housekeeping magazine, “The

biggest misconception about me is that I’m a b***h. When I started in this business, as a woman sometimes you had to put on a facade to gain respect from your male peers. At the time I was also terribly overweight so I often came across as brash, which was actually a shield. You know how the people who

are the funniest or the loudest are often the biggest? That was me. But it was all to protect myself. When I was overweight no one wanted to help me, but when I was thinner, everyone did.”