DS Icon: Su Pollard

Famed for her gaudy outfits, wacky spectacles and hilarious comic turn as Peggy Ollernshaw in Hi-de-Hi!, Su Pollard is more than worthy of her status as the first female Digital Spy Icon. The nutty Nottingham lass first hits TV screens on Opportunity Knocks in 1974, but she lost out to a singing Jack Russell on the talent show. More successful were her enduring roles in David Croft sitcoms You Rang M'Lord? and Oh, Doctor Beeching!

Pollard's other accolades include bagging the 1988 Rear Of The Year gong, lending her voice to popular BBC cartoon Penny Crayon and scoring a number two chart hit with 'Staying Together', the theme to 1986 TV doc The Marriage. Her debut album Su may have flopped at number 86, but those few who own the record cherish Su's ever optimistic cheery tunes.

Digital Spy presents a celebration of Pollard's ongoing career in pictures and salutes her as our first female DS Icon.