Line of Duty's Vicky McClure always turns heads with her red carpet choices but some ensembles - including her white knee boots and glitzy dress-jacket Brit Award combo - have landed her on the tabloids' worst dressed lists.
Most refreshingly our Bafta-winning This Is England actress, who turned 36 earlier this month, doesn't give two hoots.
"I think the reality of it is, it is chip paper," says Vicky, who lives in Toton with her fiance, the Nottingham Forest director Jonny Owen. "People don't care as much as you think they do, do you know what I mean?"
Of course it's never nice to be told that you look like your heading "straight to the office" when you've got all dolled up for a party, as Mail Online said about Vicky's Brit Awards outfit (pictured below) back in February.
But the down-to-earth beauty is pretty pragmatic about the whole celebrity style circus.
"The initial thing is you go 'I thought I looked all right'. You kind of muse on it but you just have to get over it very quickly because no one really cares that much," the Wollaton-born star adds.
Quickly making a name for herself as a TV prime time darling, having also starred in Mother's Day, The Replacement and Broadchurch as well as fronting recent documentary Our Dementia Choir, Vicky is taking the growing media interest in her private life in her stride and takes stories about herself with a pinch of salt.
Speaking to Nottinghamshire Live she says: "I read stories, we all do, about other people and I read it and I take it in for five minutes and then I never think about it ever again.
"So you just can't worry about it. The reason I have done so much press recently is because of Line of Duty. It's a massive show, we wanted everyone to watch it and to do the show proud.
"Equally with the dementia choir - it was so bloody important that people watched it. They might have seen it on their TV guide and not thought to press it because they didn't know what it is. So if I put myself out there and my face on the covers and talked about it and expose myself so there was more chance of people watching it.
"I understand how PR works and that's what I needed to do.
"If I sat back and didn't do any PR I'm not saying people wouldn't watch these shows but I've been giving it everything I can to do my bit to make sure people tune in. With that comes difficult questions and with that comes silly questions. Sometimes the pieces are not written quite as you'd hoped or expected but that's life."
Watch Our Dementia Choir with Vicky McClure and Line of Duty on BBC iPlayer now.
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