Leslie Ash

Leslie Ash (b.19 February 1960) is a British actress. After several minor roles in various TV shows, she is best known for her role in the sitcom Men Behaving Badly which ran from 1992–1997.

After appearing as a child in Tv ads, she moved onto modelling and acting, getting her first major film role playing the romantic lead in Quadrophenia in 1979, alongside Phil Daniels, Sting and Toyah Wilcox. Between 1983 and 1987 she was also co-presenter of the ground-breaking Channel 4 music show The Tube.

Leslie is married to former footballer Lee Chapman (b.1959), and they have two sons, Joe and Max. She has suffered many medical conditions, including botched lip fillers, taking antidepressants and cracking two of her ribs after falling off the bed while having sex with her husband in 2004. It was while she was in hospital for this injury that she contracted a 'deadly strain' of the MRSA superbug because of an abscess that had developed in her spinal column. In 2008 she won £5million in compensation payout in 2008 after contracting the infection.