Su Pollard may have enjoyed a long and varied career, including stints on stage and even recording a top-ten single, but there is little doubt that for most people she will always be remembered as Peggy Ollerenshaw in camp comedy Hi-de-Hi.

Over 20 years on from the classic programme’s demise, you may be forgiven for thinking Pollard would have had enough of being reminded about her spell as the haphazard chalet maid.

But nothing could be further from the truth, as she explains: “People still come up to me all the time and want to talk about Hi de Hi.

“To be so many years on from it and it still mean so much to people is incredible.

“It is really, really nice to be associated with something that obviously gave people so much pleasure.

“Also, and this is something I remember Tony Curtis saying, why rubbish people’s memories?

“For a lot of people Hi de Hi was a big part of their lives and I am happy to chat to them about it.”

Despite that, the BBC comedy is very much in the past for the 61-year-old.

And the present is Annie, the popular stage musical which comes to the Wimbledon Theatre this week.

Pollard takes the role of Miss Hannigan, the authoritarian orphanage owner who is very much seen as the ‘baddie’ of the piece.

And it is a part the actress is happy to revisit.

She adds: “It is just such a great role.

“The part really leaped off the page at me.

“Yes she is a mean character but I still like to find a saving grace for her.

“She is only really that way because she has been driven to it by the very children themselves.

“I have been playing the role for a while, but with that you find a consistency in your performance, you get really happy with it and make it the best it could possibly be.”

With Pollard still being very much in demand (she has just filmed a Benidrom Christmas special for ITV), the star is happy to flit around where the mood takes her.

And the actress, who has plans for a one-woman show next year, reveals she is incredibly happy with where her life has taken her.

Pollard concludes: “As long as the work is good I can get job satisfaction from it.

“My first love is very much the theatre and that is where I see my future.

“I think it is the immediacy of the audience that makes the difference.

“Everything is much bigger and more expansive in theatre and you are not as restricted in what you can do as say on television.

“But I have been very lucky in what I have been able to do and long may that continue.”

Wimbledon Theatre, November 30 - December 4, 7.30pm, £10-£26, 0844 871 7627