Reception
For her portrayal of Mary, Clare was nominated for Funniest Performance at the 2010 and 2011 Inside Soap Awards. She lost out to Tameka Empson who plays Kim Fox in EastEnders in 2011 Clare won Best Comedy Performance at the British Soap Awards in 2011. Of Mary, the Daily Mail's Jaci Stephen stated "Every time she opens her mouth, a gem pours forth. The writers do a great job with this character, but it is also Patti Clare's exquisite delivery that induces side-splitting hilarity – and, brilliantly, hilarity laced with a sense of the sinister."
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“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
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