Don't call me cranky, I'm just old: Royle Family star Sue Johnston, 80, slams the way older people are stereotyped on TV as 'either lying in bed dying or struggling up the road' : vimarsana.com

Don't call me cranky, I'm just old: Royle Family star Sue Johnston, 80, slams the way older people are stereotyped on TV as 'either lying in bed dying or struggling up the road'

The Royle Family and Brookside star expressed her frustration that the older generations are 'pigeonholed' into characters who was 'always on their own'.

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