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Stockard Channing talks Grease legacy and new West End play on Lorraine

The actress is back on the West End stage

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It’s nearly 40 years since actress Stockard Channing found fame as Rizzo in Grease.

Playing the sassy Pink Lady earned her a place in many people’s hearts and the film still remains a firm favourite decades after it was released.

Now Stockard is back as she takes to the West End stage to perform in the play Apologia alongside Downton Abbey’s Laura Carmichael.

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She appeared on today’s Lorraine to tell the host all about it, and how she’s amazed by Grease’s lasting legacy.

However, viewers were more interested in how the 73-year-old looks now and took to Twitter to share their dismay over her changed appearance.

The actress told Lorraine that she’s excited to be threading the boards again.

She added that Grease feels like “such a long time ago” but she’s not surprised people still connect with Rizzo nearly 40 years on, as she was such a strong character.

She said: “I am the world’s oldest living teenager! People still come up to me but now it’s funny as they all have camera phones.”

Aged 34 at the time of filming, Stockard was actually far from being a teen when she played Rizzo in the classic musical alongside Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta.

She went on to have other film and stage roles as well as a part in the West Wing, but to many she will always be remembered as Rizzo.

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