I love wearing thongs after losing 7 stone but I have huge regrets about how I did it, says EastEnders’ Lorraine Stanley

SHE shot to fame in EastEnders playing a “common as muck” working-class mum from a council estate, who wore her heart on her sleeve and her clothes several sizes bigger.  But now, a year-and-a-half on from her final scenes bidding farewell to her Karen Taylor character, Lorraine Stanley, 49, is seven stone lighter and loves...