THEY'VE become the toast of Hollywood, thanks to their nude poses with jars of jam and cherry cakes.

But one of the Women's Institute women who famously stripped off for a fundraising calendar today lifted the lid on the fall-outs which have followed their initial success.

And she revealed that the heartwarming tale of the middle-aged members of Rylstone Women's Institute, who helped raise £500,000 for charity, has left a bad taste in some people's mouths.

Despite their uniquely British success story, which has been turned into a film starring Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, things are far from peaceful among the ranks of the original Calendar Girls.

Miss May, grandmother of four Moyra Livesey, 55, runs Birchfield Residential Home, Gorse Road, Blackburn, and commutes daily to work from Rylstone, near Skipton.

She said she doesn't think the 11 women who posed for the calendar will ever mend their differences.

"We're still members of the same WI, but we're not particularly civil to one another," she said.

And while WIs from throughout the country made the trip to the cinema together, Rylstone, according to Moyra, did not, nor was she invited to any of the premieres.

"It made me smile when I read some of them saying we didn't want to be involved," Moyra said. "The fact is, were weren't contacted."

Moyra said the dispute revolves around the company chosen to make the movie - Harbour Films, a British production arm of Disney.

Moyra said: "Some of the girls knew from the beginning there was going to be a film, but kept it to themselves. That went down like a lead balloon when they told the rest of us.

"The majority of us spent every spare minute promoting the calendar at agricultural shows. We didn't know there'd be anything at the end of it.

"It's been an interesting study in human nature. We couldn't work out why things had changed."

Moyra said a rival offer for the film rights from comedienne Victoria Wood split the group further. With six of the group opting for Harbour Films, outvoting the five who preferred Wood's offer, the movie cemented the divide between the two parties, she said.

When contacted about the dispute, Miss October Tricia Stewart, who was played by Helen Mirren in the film, said: "I don't want to comment on anything. All it does is degrade what we've done. It's a really positive thing we're doing and the film's fantastic."

And in spite of the friction, Moyra also enjoyed the film.

"The first half was excellent. I laughed a lot," she said.

"I thought it went a bit off when they went to Hollywood and it lost that quirky, British feel, but overall I thought it was brilliant."