Eric Sykes
She first met Eric Sykes at the Players' Theatre in London. Dazzled by her performance, Sykes came backstage to be introduced. It was to be the beginning of a lifelong friendship and partnership.
In 1960 she joined Eric Sykes on his BBC comedy series Sykes and A..., in which they played a brother and sister who got into all sorts of comic scrapes. The joke was that they were meant to be twins, but were physically very dissimilar, Jacques being short and plump, while Sykes was thin and gangly. The show ran from 1960 to 1965 and was revived as Sykes from 1972 to 1979. They took the show on a national and international stage tour. However this put a strain on their professional relationship; in her view Sykes cut her lines and laughs because he resented Jacques's popularity with the audiences.
In December 1980 she appeared posthumously, alongside Sykes, Jimmy Edwards, Bob Todd and Charlie Drake, as Nanny in the Sykes comedy-short Rhubard Rhubarb.
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