Stars go from screen to canvass
Well-loved British TV stars have been immortalised as art world classics in a series of paintings to mark their status as national treasures.
Among the familiar faces is Barbara Windsor, who is transferred to the Folies Bergere for a cheeky revamp of a Manet.
David Jason is another top name who features in the works for the new edition of the Radio Times, which is published tomorrow.
Magazine bosses chose 12 stars who have won the affection of the British public and whom they felt could rightly be called national treasures.
The 10 paintings include three nudes – featuring Cat Deeley, Joanna Lumley and Tamzin Outhwaite.
Deeley is in another Manet, the painter’s Dejeuner Sur l’Herbe, pictured alongside her former SM:tv Live colleagues Ant And Dec and surrounded by Newcastle Brown Ale cans.
The painting was famously recreated by early Eighties chart act Bowwowwow for their See Jungle! See Jungle! album.
