A TELLY mad grandma almost lost the chance of a starring role in a new TV show after a hair-do left her "looking like a skunk."

June Knight, 47, of Brockenhurst Street, Burnley, went for the streaks because she wanted a new look before appearing on Sky One's new TV show Guilty.

After the first colour came out too bright the hair salon repeated the streaks and June, who has naturally dark hair, said: "They left me looking like a skunk!"

But thanks to self-employed hairdresser Andrea Kirkbright, of Designer Team for Hair, in Accrington, June was able to make her appearance before the cameras.

The show was recorded yesterday ready for screening later this year.

June is no stranger to TV having appeared on six chat shows in the last eight years including Kilroy, The Time And The Place and Vanessa. And her family and friends are joining her in the latest project Guilty.

She said: "I have been accused of being guilty of being over protective towards my sons -- but I think I am just like any other mother who loves her children.

"In the programme I will be in the 'dock' in a mock court room and my sons Michael, 20, and Clive, 23, will give evidence to support me being over protective.

"Clive's girlfriend Michelle Stackhouse will be speaking in my favour because she thinks I am just a caring mother."

June stands accused because she buys all her sons' clothes including underwear, chooses her sons' girlfriends and then buys their clothes too and is forever asking what time they will be back in.

Michelle is five-and-a-half months pregnant and June has already bought a cot and a pram!

June, a part-time kitchen assistant at Towneley High School, Burnley, said: "If I am found guilty then I will have to do a forfeit but I don't know what that will be yet."

She is an avid watcher of chat shows and has ambitions of appearing on The Jerry Springer Show and Sky's Sally Jessy Raphael.

A spokesman for the salon in Burnley said it had agreed to refund the cost of the hair treatment.

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