TELEVISION-MAD grandma June Knight is thinking of a career in television after 13 appearances on the small screen.

Each time she is accused by her sons Clive, 24, and Mick, 21, of being an interfering mum. But she claims she is just protecting them.

When she disagrees which their choice of girlfriend, June, of Brockenhurst Street, Burnley, has no qualms about voicing her opinion and she has only recently stopped buying their entire wardrobe and clothing their girlfriends.

And when daughter Michelle announced she was to wed, June did not stop the marriage but said it wouldn't work. And it didn't!

This week, when she got a share of a friend's bingo win, she blew the lot on buying gifts for her family and friends - and nothing for herself.

But she has been left reviewing her TV career after watching herself on ITV's Trisha chat show entitled 'Mum - shut up!'

June, 48, said: "It didn't come across as I hoped it would and I was a bit hurt by some of the things Clive said about me.

"After the show he said he was told by producers to spice it up a bit. But they didn't tell him what to say and I felt he was a bit unfair.

"I have always been there for my children but the next time my sons ask me for something I am going to tell them to ring their father in Blackpool.

"I have already turned down a chance to be on the British programmes that Jerry Springer is hosting because I now think it's not all it's cracked up to be and tries to make families quarrel."

"After I recorded Trisha I was also approached by a producer to do a documentary, but they wanted to follow me for five days and I wouldn't agree to that.

"I have not appeared on these shows to air my dirty linen in public. It has been because producers have phoned and asked me to be on them. The children locally are always stopping me in the street and saying they have seen me on TV."

June, a part-time kitchen assistant at Towneley High School, Burnley, does still have one TV ambition though.

"I would love to appear in Emmerdale," she said. "Maybe I could be Mandy Dingle's auntie or something.

"I would love to be a member of the Dingle clan because they are so down to earth!"

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