HANNAH Waddingham has a list in her head of all the people who slighted her on her grindingly slow rise to the top of the showbusiness world. As she hangs out with Ryan Gosling, gets in helicopters with Tom Cruise and seems well on her way to becoming a bona fide national treasure, who would deny the Ted Lasso breakout star – who turns 50 in July – the satisfaction of occasionally thinking of all the people she would be happy to say, in her words, “bog off” to? 10 Actress Hannah Waddingham has had the last laugh when it comes to her school bullies 10 Hannah stars opposite Ryan Gosling in The Fall Guy For starters, there are the school bullies who labelled the 5ft 11in beauty a “lanky freak”. There’s also the drama teacher who announced to the whole class: “Oh, Hannah will never work on screen because she looks like one side of her face has had a stroke.
” There are the boyfriends who told her she was not good enough, as well as all the casting directors who said she was too tall or too curvy – but now want to cast her. “Yes, there is a little list of people who wouldn’t give me the time of day but now want to work together,” the star said recently on the podcast Sunday Sitdown With Willie Geist. “And I am happy to say to them: ‘Please look somewhere else.
I’m human. I remember. Bog off.
’” Hannah likes to joke that she’s the longest-incubating overnight star in history. She’s been hoofing and sweating away in the West End for decades, but.
