North East actress Denise Welch has been sharing her Geordie sense of humour with the US and talking about everything from Byker Grove to her interviews with Hollywood stars.
The Loose Women favourite was taking part in podcast Ur Welcome America which introduces our friends Stateside to British popular culture.
And the entertaining chat included how Britney Spears just didn't "get" her while Julia Roberts most definitely did.
In a 'Loose Women Special' episode of the podcast, Welch talked candidly about her life and career, including her start in Byker Grove, to hosts who said: "Trying to explain Byker Grove to an American in well nigh impossible".
The Ur Welcome America podcast is hosted by British TV producers Ben Anderson and Frazer Yorke who now live in LA and each episode sees them 'translate' elements of the two different cultures.
This ranges from seeking out the equivalent over there of, for instance, a Greggs sausage roll to finding out why Halloween is seen as such a big deal in the US.
The answer, apparently, is "because the weather's better and everyone can dress in skimpy clothes", while another unique insight blames the TV show Frasier for the inability of Americans to pronounce host Frazer's name.
In the Loose Women special, Welch discussed her leaving and return to the lunchtime chat show and interviews of visiting American guests - both good and bad - including pop princess Britney and actress Julia Roberts.
"Britney didn't get me," she said of leaving the singer flummoxed by pulling off a Louisiana accent and also teaching how to say "stick a rubber hose up your nose" in Geordie.
The former Coronation Street and Waterloo Road actress said that she and Roberts, however, had "got on like a house on fire", adding that she even shared with the Notting Hill star a photograph of her ex-husband Tim Healy as his transvestite character in Benidorm.
She spoke of her early years in Byker Grove , harking back to the time Ant and Dec were known as PJ and Duncan and appearing in another former local series, Spender, as well as the effects of her former drink problem before adopting a life of sobriety.
Life today includes time in the States to visit friends and where she's also known as the mother of Matty from The 1975.
The band, she revealed, was founded in her garage - which is where her artist husband Lincoln also started his painting - while her younger son Louis, a rising actor, is currently in Emmerdale.
The whole interview can be heard on the Ur Welcome America podcast which is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify Podcasts.
