Ashley Jensen: I Don't Want To Get Lifted In Ugly Betty

Mar 16 2008 By Toby Mcdonald

Ugly Betty Star Believes Writers Will Literally Give Her The Push

SCOTS funny girl Ashley Jensen fears being dumped from smash US comedy Ugly Betty.

She is terrified the writers will kill off her character, designer Christina McKinney, by sending her plunging down a lift shift.

Ashley, 38, said: "I still think I am going to get found out and they will send me home.

"I've heard there's a favourite soap exit - your character opens an elevator shaft then disappears down it - so I scan the scripts anxiously for any elevator scenes. Beware the shaft!"

But it looks like Ashley will have to wait a while for her elevator moment as her character becomes a mum in the latest series.

Christina agrees to become a surrogate to pay medical bills for husband Stuart, played by Scots actor Derek Riddell.

Ashley was raised by her single mum in Annan, Dumfriesshire, but now lives in a £1million home in one of LA's most exclusive streets and has Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as neighbours.

And she is still getting to grips with big cultural differences between California and Scotland.

She said: "At first I felt like I had landed on another planet.

"I felt like a tiny person because the roads are so big, the cars are so big and there's big bags of potato chips, the size of a 10-year-old boy's torso.

"But they have tiny, tiny dogs. I felt really weird."

Personal grooming among the movie industry's beautiful people also makes Ashley laugh.

She said: "I thought that American women on TV had amazing hair and eyelashes and things.

"What I found out is that they have all got little weaves in and false eyelashes.

"American women have amazing radiant skin and hair - and a few of those stretched faces.

"I had to be told to go for a mani-ped (manicure and pedicure). I didn't even known what they were talking about "I had never even had a facial until I was told to on Ugly Betty because of my peely wally, Scots skin."

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