Hi-de-Hi! star Diane dies
Holland played snooty ballroom dancer
Diane Holland, who played snooty ballroom dancing instructor Yvonne Stewart-Hargreaves in Hi-de-Hi!, has died at the age of 78.She began her career as a singer and dancer, and was the sister-in-law of the sitcom’s co-writer Jimmy Perry. But she once said: ‘I am not at all like Yvonne I would hate people to think that.’
Holland also played Celia Littlewood in Grace and Favour, Perry and David Croft’s follow-up to Are You Being Served? Before she became famous in the holiday-camp sitcom, she also appeared in an episode of Sykes – coincidentally as a character also called Yvonne – and two episodes of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.
She had been suffering from bronchial pneumonia up to her death on January 24.
Published: 17 Feb 2009
