Taking to the stage at Blackmore's of Alnwick on Friday, November 13, the Celebrity Big Brother contestant will be detailing her life and times, with its ups and downs, her successful and not-so-successful moments and, of course, her reality television experience.

Born in St Neots, Rula is of Polish heritage and inherited the title, Countess. She is bilingual, speaking both English and Polish, and has had numerous appearances on the stage and screen as well as travelling across the globe on conservation missions.

She said: "I am not an all-singing, all-dancing show. I will be rambling through my life, through my background, through my career, my conservation work, Big Brother and how my life has been.

"I had a very colourful background. My mother's story is fairly extraordinary, I am making a documentary of it at the moment."

She will be describing her strict upbringing, with Polish parents who made her speak mainly Polish at home, despite being born in England, as they always believed the family would return to Poland one day. And she tells how her parents worried about her journey into showbusiness.

Rula's big break in television came in the Seventies when she played Q
in TV series, Rock Follies. She has since been in a number of programmes, including Eastenders, Casualty, To the Manor Born and Footballers' Wive.

One of her most notorious was Celebrity Big Brother 2006, where her defining moment was imitating a cat and its owner, with fellow contestant George Galloway.

She said: "People are still very interested in it and there are quite a few behind-the-scenes tales that the ordinary viewing public were not really aware of."

And her next appearance on the box is not far off as she has just recorded an episode of Coronation Street which will air around Christmas time.

She said: "Corrie is an institution and it is great to be invited to be in it, I'm hoping there might be some more."

Along with television and stage performances, Rula is also a keen conservationist and has been on 'phenonmenal' adventures around the world with her work.

Rula's performance at Blackmore's will be her first to a mixed audience. She has performed the routine to women's groups in London but never on the stage and she is looking forward to presenting to a new kind of audience.

Tickets are available from David Macbeth on 07733172625.