CBeebies presenter ‘could not afford to show heating on’ after being sacked over topless picture

Sarah-Jane Honeywell’s children TV profession got here to an surprising halt in 2011 after she took half in a topless photoshoot.

Identified for fronting programmes equivalent to Tikkabilla, ZingZillas and Mighty Mites, every thing modified after she teamed up with animal rights charity PETA to boost some money in opposition to the unethical remedy of the world’s many creatures.

The 51-year-old was additionally snapped dripping in Food regimen Coke while carrying a skimpy vest.

“The BBC was requested to touch upon the photographs, they usually merely mentioned I now not labored for them,” she revealed (per The Solar).

“That was how I discovered. There was by no means a telephone name or a single dialog with my bosses – regardless of me having labored there for 10 years. I used to be fully devastated that the profession I liked was over.”

Unsurprisingly, this out-of-the-blue sacking resulted in extreme monetary pressure – exacerbated by the rising price of residing.

“Just a few years in the past I did not put my heating on at all around the winter as a result of it had gone up a lot – I simply couldn’t afford to place my heating on,” Honeywell went on to share.

For the photoshoot itself, the star (who now hosts a Sunday afternoon present for BBC Radio Lincolnshire) laid down on a super-sized dinner plate populated by ‘chips and peas’ to advertise vegetarianism.

“They mentioned I might put on a bra and pants, so I received some flesh-coloured ones, and I used to be requested to lie down on a large plate of meals,” the mum-of-two recalled.

“As I received in place, they requested me to take my bra off as a result of it’d get masses extra information protection. I believed, ‘OK, I am serving to an excellent trigger’ and I did not actually see what was flawed with it. They’re simply boobs they usually have been lined with my palms.”

When the nationwide press cottoned onto the photographs and recycled them, the keys to the TV business have been taken away from Honeywell.

“I could not get any auditions as a result of folks did not take me critically and simply handed me off as a kids’s TV weirdo. Financially it was an absolute catastrophe.”

She and husband Ayden Callaghan, who performed Joe Roscoe in Hollyoaks, have been pressured to maneuver into her mother and father’ storage.

“We misplaced every thing,” she recounted.

“We have been pressured to stay within the storage of my mother and father’ residence for 3 years. In addition to shedding my job at CBeebies, I had additionally been via a breakup and it left my monetary scenario in ruins.

“Ayden and I each labored actually laborious all our lives, after which we abruptly discovered ourselves residing on this tiny house with two kids.”

Very like John Cleese, Honeywell made certain to have a dig at cancel tradition too, in that ‘folks neglect that human beings are behind these movie star personas – folks could make errors’.