Are you sure you’re Les Dawson’s daughter? Model career for comedian’s girl

By
Ben Todd
Last updated at 1:47 AM on 4th April 2011

Dawson’s chic: Charlotte enjoys all forms of modelling

When a girl boasts of looking like Les Dawson, modelling would not seem the most likely career option.

But that is how things have turned out for the late comedian’s daughter Charlotte.

The 18-year-old, whose father died of a heart attack when she was just eight months old, has signed with renowned London-based agency IMM.

Last night Miss Dawson told the Daily Mail: ‘I love all types of modelling – but lingerie is obviously my favourite.’

The teenager, who left school at 16, lives at home with her mother, Dawson’s second wife Tracy, in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire.

After the Blankety Blank host’s death in 1993, Mrs Dawson put a life size cut-out of him in Charlotte’s nursery, played his TV shows to her, and persuaded her to lift her spoon heavenwards before she ate to give her father a taste.

Miss Dawson says she ‘definitely’ shares a sense of humour with her father – who became one of Britain’s most loved comedians in the Seventies with his mother-in-law jokes and portrayal of a disapproving northern housewife – and can even mimic his famous gurn, adding: ‘I can do all his faces and I look a lot like him really.’

Frumpy: Les Dawson playing one of his typical characters