Biography

When tonsilitis ruined her West End run, it wasn’t the NHS or BUPA that helped her recover. Instead, she relied on a ‘healer’ in Spain.

When Martine was nine, her mother won sole custody and an injunction was made against her father seeing her until she was 18

She made her first TV appearance when she was six weeks old, on a party political broadcast.

The tabloid press hated her so much at one point that even when she went out to help the starving in Africa, it was reported that she locked herself up in a five star hotel and rarely left. (The charity involved later dismissed the allegations)