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Jean Boht obituary by Anthony Hayward

Actor who played Nellie Boswell in the popular BBC television sitcom BreadThe actor Jean Boht, who has died aged 91, became a household name when she starred as Nellie Boswell, the indomitable matriarch ruling the roost over her Liverpool working-class Catholic family, in the BBC TV sitcom Bread, screened in the 1980s at a time of high unemployment. Boht was seen unleashing Nellie's acid tongue on her five grown-up c…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PM on September 13, 2023

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