Vanda Godsell

{{Infobox person

| name = Vanda Godsell

| image = Vanda Godsell (actress).jpg

| caption = Godsell in This Sporting Life in 1963

| other_names = {{plainlist|

Nancy Evelyn Selway
Nancy Evelyn Orchard

}}

| birth_name = Nancy Evelyn Godsell

| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|11|17|df=y}}

| birth_place = Bognor Regis, Sussex, England

| death_date = {{C.|{{death date and age|1990|04|02|1922|11|17|df=y}}}}

| death_place = North Kensington, Greater London, England

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1937–1983

| television = The Newcomers

| spouse = {{plainlist|

{{marriage|George Selway|1954|end=divorce|1957}}
{{marriage|Alan Orchard|1964|end=died|1979}}

}}

| relatives = Naomi Jacob (maternal aunt)

}}

Nancy Evelyn Orchard (née Godsell, formally Selway; 17 November 1922 – {{C.|2 April 1990}}), known professionally as Vanda Godsell, was an English actress. With a career that spanned 46 years, she was best known for her role as Katie Heenan in the BBC One soap opera The Newcomers (1966–1969).

Hal Erickson writes in AllMovie, "Vanda Godsell specialised in playing disheveled housewives, busybody landladies and blowsy domestics."{{Cite web |title=Vanda Godsell |url=https://www.allmovie.com/search/people/vanda-godsell- |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=AllMovie |language=en-GB}}

Early life

Nancy Evelyn Godsell was born in Bognor Regis, Sussex, England, on 17 November 1922,England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007: OCT 1922 2b 834 PORTSMOUTH — Nancy E Godsell as the youngest child to Reginald Godsell,England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915: APR 1890 6a 3138 STROUD — Reginald GodsellEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007: APR 1941 (aged 50) 2b 696 HOVE — Reginald Godsell a[retired Royal Navy commander who served in the Battle of Jutland,{{Cite book |last=Cotter |first=Robert Michael "Bobb" |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IiZnbykWAsIC&q=vanda+godsell+biography&pg=PA88 |title=The Women of Hammer Horror: A Biographical Dictionary and Filmography |date=2014 |publisher=McFarland & Co Inc |isbn=9781476602011 |language=en-GB}}1939 England and Wales Register and his wife,England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915: JAN 1915 5a 511 WEYMOUTH — Reginald Godsell = Abbott Muriel Wilfreda Rachel Ellington (née Abbott or Jacob),England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915: JUL 1887 9a 73 RIPON — Muriel Wilfreda R JacobsEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007: JUL 1971 (aged 80) 9c 2299 SUTTON COLDFIELD — Muriel Ellington Godsell an author, who was the sister of Naomi Jacob, a novelist.

She had two elder sisters, Muriel Felicia Mary AtkinsonEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005: OCT 1940 2b 900 HOVE — Muriel F M Godsell = Arthur G L Atkinson (née Godsell),England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007: FEB 1985 (aged 69) 18 1481 HOVE — Muriel Felicia M Atkinson an actress, and Audrey Rosemary Nina "Audrie" AtchesonEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005: JAN 1951 5h 703 HOVE — Audrie R N Godsell = Atcheson (née Godsell, formally Young)England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005: JUL 1944 2b 534 BRIGHTON — Audrie R W Godsell = William J L Young,England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007: JAN 1919 1b 656 MARYLEBONE — Audrey GodsellEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007: APR 1999 (aged 80) B40B 44 MID WARWICKSHIRE — Audrie Rosemary N Atcheson an editor in the publishing world.

Career

Godsell began her career as an actress when she joined the Bristol Repertoire in 1937, at the age of 14. She made her stage debut on 10 August 1942, portraying Nancy in Barry O'Brien and Roy Limbert's production of Gaslight.{{Cite web |title=Production of Gaslight |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/48d/gaslight/production/yn6 |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=Theatricalia |language=en-GB}} She made her television debut on 3 April 1949, with the role of Mirabelle in the television film My Mother Said.{{Cite web |date=3 April 1949 |title=My Mother Said |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/088fc93a0def4680b485d24b647b3b54 |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}

She made her broadcasting debut on 4 March 1950, as the voice of Lulu Smith in the BBC Home Service production of the BBC Television series Sunday Night Theatre.{{Cite web |date=4 March 1950 |title=Saturday-Night Theatre Arthur Young in 'SHOOTING STAR' |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/19a470c3351a45cfa2a9f3860f659fa4 |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}} She made her film debut in November 1953, with the role of Angela Neilson in the second feature ('B') crime film Flannelfoot.{{Cite web |date= |title=Vanda Godsell |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba3096e5e |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803145805/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba3096e5e |archive-date=3 August 2012 |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=BFI |language=en-GB}}

Godsell portrayed Hilda Wardle in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She appeared in 14 episodes from 25 January 1961. The character was a lady friend of Christine Hardman's uncle Edwin Mason, who came to make sure Christine has enough money to live on following her mother's sudden death.{{fact|date=December 2024}}

Godsell portrayed Katie Heenan in the BBC One soap opera The Newcomers from 1966 to 1969.{{Cite web |title=Vanda Godsell |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/talent/g/godsell_vanda.shtml |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Newcomers, The (1965-69) |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1401049/index.html |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=BFI |language=en-GB}}

Godsell retired on 5 September 1983, following her role as Woman in the debut episode of the ITV television series Reilly, Ace of Spies.{{Cite web |date=30 November 2020 |title=TPTV Schedule November 30th to December 6th 2020 |url=https://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/TPTV-Schedule-Nov-30th-to-Dec-6th.pdf |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=TalkingPictures TV |language=en-GB}}

Personal life

Godsell married her first husband, George Selway,England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007: JAN 1924 1a 675 MARYLEBONE — Honry G SelwayEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007: MAY 1994 (aged 70) E42A 47 CAMDEN — Henry George Selway an actor, in Marylebone, Middlesex in October 1954.England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005: OCT 1954 5d 589 MARYLEBONE — Henry G Selway = Nancy E Godsell The couple divorced in 1957, after two years of marriage.{{fact|date=December 2024}}

Godsell married her second husband, Alan Joseph Orchard (born 4 December 1924),England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007: OCT 1924 8c 972 CHORLTON — Alan J Orchard in Hampstead, London, in January 1964.England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005: JAN 1964 5c 1880 HAMPSTEAD — Nancy E Selway = Alan J Orchard She was widowed in April 1979, after 15 years of marriage.England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007: APR 1979 (aged 54) 12 1529 HAMMERSMITH — Alan Joseph Orchard

Death

Godsell was found lying naked in an empty bath at her North Kensington home on 2 April 1990, at the age of 67. Her body was discovered by police after neighbours, of Scrubs Lane, complained of the smell coming from her home.{{Cite web |date=8 November 1990 |title=Nov 08, 1990, page 4 - Chelsea News at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/821959437/?match=1&terms=%22Nancy%20Orchard%22 |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |date=17 April 1990 |title=Apr 17, 1990, page 19 - The Daily Telegraph at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/751423422/?match=1&terms=%22Vanda%20Godsell%22 |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en-GB}} Her funeral service took place on 17 April 1990 at Mortlake Crematorium, where she was cremated.{{Cite web |date=12 April 1990 |title=Apr 12, 1990, page 28 - The Daily Telegraph at Newspapers.com - Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/751425612/?article=3fbb4666-affb-418a-8569-df3180add5a7&terms=%22Vanda%20Godsell%22 |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en-GB}}

The inquest into Godsell's death was held at Hammersmith Crown Court in early November 1990,England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007: OCT 1990 (aged 66) 12 1534 HAMMERSMITH — Nancy Evelyn Orchard and heard from her sister-in-law, Frances Atcheson, that she had been prone to drinking heavily. Coroner John Burton heard that her body was in such a state of decomposition that her cause of death could not be ascertained. Burton recorded an open verdict.{{Cite web |date=8 November 1990 |title=Nov 08, 1990, page 4 - Kensington and Chelsea News at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/794079062/ |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en-GB}}

Filmography

= Stage =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Production

!Location

1942

|Gaslight

|Nancy

|Barry O'Brien and Roy Limbert

|King's Theatre, Edinburgh and Opera House, Manchester

1944

|The Corn Is Green

|Bessie Watty

|Derek Salberg's Repertory Company

|Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham

1944

|Jane Eyre

|Wolverhampton Repertory Company

|Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton

1944

|Laburnum Road

|Elsie Radfern

|Derek Salberg's Repertory Company

|Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham

1944

|Hattie Stowes

|Elsie Peters

|Derek Salberg's Repertory Company

|Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham

1945

|The Late Christopher Bean

|Ada Haggett

|Derek Salberg's Repertory Company

|Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham

1945

|Claudia

|Julia Naughton

|Derek Salberg's Repertory Company

|Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham

1945

|A Soldier for Christmas

|Millie Smith

|Derek Salberg's Repertory Company

|Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham

1945

|Little Women

|Amy

|Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham

1945

|Worm's Eye View

|Thelma

|Derek Salberg's Repertory Company

|Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham

1948

|Trespass

|Mrs Amos

|Wolverhampton Repertory Company

|Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton

1948

|Lovers' Leap

|Helen Storer

|Wolverhampton Repertory Company

|Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton

1948

|Tons of Money

|Louise Allington

|Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton

1949

|Tomorrow is a Lovely Day

|Windsor Repertory Company

|Theatre Royal, Windsor

1949

|Jane Steps Out

|Jane

|Windsor Repertory Company

|Theatre Royal, Windsor

1951

|A Streetcar Named Desire

|Blanche De Bois

|Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne and Palace Pier Theatre, Brighton

1956

|Mister Lear

|Violet Danefield

|Worthing Theatre Company

|Connaught Theatre, Worthing

1957

|The Reluctant Debutant

|Sheila Broadbent

|Worthing Theatre Company

|Connaught Theatre, Worthing

1957

|An Air for Murder

|Mrs Eltner

|Worthing Theatre Company

|Connaught Theatre, Worthing

1958

|Daddy-O!

|Maud Hopkinson

|Worthing Theatre Company

|Connaught Theatre, Worthing

1958

|Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

|Olive

|Windsor Repertory Company

|Theatre Royal, Windsor

1958

|A Touch of the Sun

|Margaret Lester

|Windsor Repertory Company

|Theatre Royal, Windsor

1959

|All in the Family

|Sylvie Sauvin

|Henry Sherek Ltd

|Strand Theatre, London, Grand Theatre & Opera House, Leeds, and other locations

1960–1961

|The Lion in Love

|Bristol Hippodrome

1961

|The Pinedus Affair

|The Lady

|Pembroke Theatre Croydon

|Pembroke Theatre, Croydon

1961

|Life Worth Living

|Maisie

|Alexandra Repertory Company with Basil Dean Productions Ltd

|Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham

1965

|The Night of the Iguana

|Maxine Faulk

|Bernard Delfont, Clement Scott Gilbert, Hugh Wonter, New Pembroke Theatre Ltd

|Savoy Theatre, London, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, and other locations

1970

|The Wild Duck

|Mrs Bertha Sorby

|The Play Company of London

|Criterion Theatre, London

1971

|The Anniversary

|Mum

|Newpalm Productions

|Princess Theatre, Tourquay, Cambridge Arts Theatre, and other locations

1973

|The Starving Rich

|Esther Fisher

|Tom Arnold Presentations Ltd

|Theatre Royal, Brighton, The Playhouse, Weston-super-Mare, and other locations

1974

|The Morgan Yard

|Carrie Morgan

|Mercury Theatre Company

|Mercury Theatre, Colchester

1974

|Blue, White and Red

|Madame Renoir

|Birmingham Repertory Company

|Birmingham Repertory Theatre

1975

|She Stoops to Conquer

|Mrs Hardcastle

|Nottingham Playhouse Company

|Nottingham Playhouse

1975

|Major Barbara

|Lady Britomart

|Nottingham Playhouse Company

|Nottingham Playhouse

1975

|Habeas Corpus

|Muriel Wicksteed

|Liverpool Playhouse

1978

|Funny Peculiar

|Mrs Baldry

|Nottingham Playhouse

1979

|Saturday Sunday Morning

|Royal Lyceum Company

|Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh

1981

|Habeas Corpus

|Muriel Wicksteed

|Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh

|Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh

= Television =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1949

|My Mother Said

|Mirabelle

|Television film

1954

|The Javanese Dagger

|Wanda - Tresall's 1st Wife

|Short

1955

|Scotland Yard: Murder Anonymous

|Hotel guest

|Short

1955

|Song of Norway

|Short

1955

|Theatre Royal

|Mary Smith

|Episode: "The Little Black Book"

1956

|Scotland Yard: The Wall of Death

|Nina Hartier

|Short

1956

|Adventure Theater

|Wanda

|Episode: "The Javanese Dagger"

1956

|The Other Man

|Billie Reynolds

|2 episodes

1956

|Without Love

|Sylvia

|Television film

1957–1963

|ITV Television Playhouse

|Miss Summerfield, Madge Tullis, May Vine

|3 episodes

1957

|Many Mansions

|Susan Brown

|Television film

1957

|Shadow Squad

|Stella Curtis

|2 episodes

1957–1959

|The Vise

|Edwina, Nurse

|2 episodes

1958

|The Killing Stones

|Lucille Kleiber

|Episode: "The Carefulness of Kleiber"

1958

|Television Playwright

|Laura

|Episode: "Liberty Hall"

1958–1959

|Dial 999

|Mary, Margaret

|2 episodes

1958

|Starr and Company

|Mrs. Kay

|2 episodes

1958

|Private Investigator

|Mrs. Raffanole

|Episode: "The Villa St. Yves"

1958–1959

|Sunday Night Theatre

|Babs Coates, Commander's Wife

|2 episodes

1959

|Murder Bag

|Episode: "Lockheart Breaks Even"

1959

|Campion

|Chloe Pye

|2 episodes

1959

|Nick of the River

|Laida

|Episode: "Oranges and Lemons"

1959

|Knight Errant Limited

|Drazin

|Episode: "Adam Meets His Match"

1959

|Emergency Ward 10

|Mrs. Rendell

|Episode: "Episode #1.296"

1960

|Armchair Theatre

|Grace Warren

|Episode: "The Girl in the Market Square"

1960

|Man from Interpol

|Diane

|Episode: "Latest Fashion in Crime"

1960–1962

|No Hiding Place

|Patsy Baines, Moira Forbes

|2 episodes

1960–1962

|Edgar Wallace Mysteries

|Mrs. Ferber, Betty Conlon

|2 episodes

1961

|Coronation Street

|Hilda Wardle

|1 episode

1961

|Around the Corner

|Stella Palmer

|Television film

1961

|Three Live Wires

|Episode: "Stranger Than Fiction"

1961

|The Cheaters

|Mrs. Little, First Matron

|2 episodes

1961

|Magnolia Street

|Maggie Tawnie

|4 episodes

1961

|Probation Officer

|Mrs. Goodwin

|Episode: "Episode #3.5"

1961

|Family Solicitor

|Mrs. Anderson

|Episode: "The Battle of Tanley Corner"

1962–1964

|ITV Play of the Week

|Mrs. Boone, Rosie, Margaret

|3 episodes

1962

|Silent Evidence

|Viv

|Episode: "Shadow of the Past"

1962

|The Danny Thomas Show

|Mavis

|Episode: "A Hunting We Will Go"

1963

|Taxi!

|Madeleine

|Episode: "It's Lonely Up Front"

1963

|The Scales of Justice

|Agnes Chester

|Episode: "The Undesirable Neighbour"

1963–1973

|Z-Cars

|Mona Hodson, Mrs. Hartley

|2 episodes

1963

|Maigret

|Madame Laboine

|Episode: "The Lost Life"

1963

|Dixon of Dock Green

|Rosie Shaw-Browne, Rosie Brown, Mrs. Perry

|3 episodes

1963

|The Saint

|Tina Ourley

|Episode: "The Rough Diamonds"

1964

|Festival

|Prudence

|Episode: "The Lady of the Camellias"

1964

|Sergeant Cork

|Mrs. Whibley

|Episode: "The Case of the Dumb Witness"

1964

|Detective

|Dagmar Candour

|Episode: "Death in Ecstasy"

1964

|The Third Man

|Miss Muffin

|Episode: "A Question in Ice"

1964

|The Four Seasons of Rosie Carr

|Mrs. Quorn

|Episode: "Spring at the Winged Horse"

1964

|The Hidden Truth

|Betty Cleaves

|Episode: "The Achilles Heel"

1964

|The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling

|Mrs. Herriot

|Episode: "The Rescue of Pluffles"

1964

|Gideon's Way

|Charlotte Borgman

|Episode: "To Catch a Tiger"

1964

|Crane

|Ida Lewis

|Episode: "The Man with the Big Feet"

1966

|Dr. Finlay's Casebook

|Alison Canning

|Episode: "Hear No Evil"

1966–1969

|The Newcomers

|Katie Heenan

|273 episodes

1971

|Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

|Mary Appleton

|Episode: "You Will Go to the Ball, Manny Cohen"

1971

|Crime of Passion

|Madame Leclerc

|Episode: "Louis"

1972

|General Hospital

|Edith Bishop

|5 episodes

1973

|Bless This House

|Virginia

|Episode: "Tea for Two and Four for Tea"

1973

|Full House

|Maria in On the High Road

|Episode: "Episode #1.22"

1973

|ITV Sunday Night Theatre

|Amy Cooper

|Episode: "Reckoning Day"

1974

|Pianorama

|Short

1975

|Ten from the Twenties

|Mrs. Dickson

|Episode: "The Fifty Pound Note"

1975–1978

|I Didn't Know You Cared

|Mrs. Partington

|9 episodes

1975

|Kim & Co.

|Mrs. Hansen

|Episode: "Doublecross"

1977

|Hazlitt in Love

|Edinburgh prostitute

|Television film

1977

|Rough Justice

|Angela May Brownes

|Episode: "Irretrievable Breakdown"

1979

|In Loving Memory

|Elsie Unsworth

|Episode: "The Legacy"

1980

|Cowboys

|Mrs. Hill

|Episode: "Black Day at Bad Rock"

1982

|Minder

|Queenie

|Episode: "Looking for Micky"

1983

|Reilly, Ace of Spies

|Woman

|Episode: "An Affair with a Married Woman"

= Radio =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Station

!Notes

1950

|Saturday Night Theatre

|Lulu Smith

|BBC Home Service

|Episode: "Shooting Star"

1950

|Monday Matinee

|Lulu Smith

|BBC Light Programme

|Episode: "Shooting Star"

1956

|Sunday Theatre: The Atom Bowler

|BBC Light Programme

|2 episodes

1957

|The Dancers

|Velma

|BBC Home Service, BBC Light Programme

|2 episodes

1957

|Maigret and the Lost Life

|Jeanine

|BBC Home Service

1958

|Until the Day She Dies

|Sibelle

|BBC Light Programme

|2 episodes

1971

|Dr Finlay's Caseybook

|Alison Canning

|BBC Radio 4

1973

|John Dunn

|Mrs Marsh

|BBC Radio 2

|2 episodes

= Film =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1953

|Flannelfoot

|Angela Neilson

1953

|The Large Rope

|Amy Jordan

1954

|Johnny on the Spot

|Diane Townley

1955

|The Brain Machine

|Mae Smith

1955

|The Atomic Man

|Stenographer

1957

|Hour of Decision

|Eileen Chadwick

1958

|Innocent Sinners

|Lovejoy's Mother

1959

|Horrors of the Black Museum

|Miss Ashton

1959

|No Safety Ahead

|Uncredited

1959

|In the Wake of a Stranger

|Hetty McCabe

1959

|Upstairs and Downstairs

|Buxom Train Passenger

|Uncredited

1960

|Hell Is a City

|Lucretia 'Lucky' Lusk

1960

|The Man Who Was Nobody

|Mrs. Ferber

1960

|Sword of Sherwood Forest

|The Prioress

1961

|Payroll

|Doll

1961

|Konga

|Bob's Mother

1961

|The Shadow of the Cat

|Louise Venable

1961

|The Frightened City

|Sophie Peters

1961

|Night Without Pity

|Tart

1962

|Waltz of the Toreadors

|Emma Bulstrode

1962

|Candidate for Murder

|Betty Conlon

1962

|The Pot Carriers

|Mrs. Red Band

1962

|Term of Trial

|Mrs. Thompson

1963

|This Sporting Life

|Mrs. Weaver

1963

|The Wrong Arm of the Law

|Annette

1963

|80,000 Suspects

|Mrs. Agnes Davis

1963

|Bitter Harvest

|Mrs. Pitt

1963

|The Victors

|Nurse

|Uncredited

1963

|Clash by Night

|Mrs. Grey-Simmons

1964

|A Shot in the Dark

|Madame LaFarge

1964

|The Earth Dies Screaming

|Violet Courtland

1965

|Dateline Diamonds

|Mrs. Jenkins

1966

|The Wrong Box

|Mrs. Goodge

1966

|Who Killed the Cat?

|Eleanor Trellington

1970

|A Touch of the Other

|Angela

1976

|The Pink Panther Strikes Again

|Mrs. Leverlilly

Source(s): {{Cite web |title=Vanda Godsell |url=https://theatricalia.com/person/xnd/vanda-godsell |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=Theatricalia |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Vanda Godsell |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0324203/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=IMDb |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Vanda Godsell - BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=first&q=Vanda+Godsell |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Vanda Godsell |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/vanda_godsell |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Vanda Godsell |url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/vanda-godsell/3030200916/ |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=TV Guide |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Vanda Godsell |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/vanda_godsell/ |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=British Comedy Guide |language=en-GB}}

References

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