Honours and Personal Life
Josie Lawrence is single. In an interview with good friend Jim Sweeney, she said, "It's always the same: 'You're 41, and not married and no kids', God, I'm so bored with it" . She resides in South Hackney, London. She has two cats, a long-haired ginger (Aynuk) and a black-and-white (Ayli), named after the Black Country characters Aynuk and Ayli, who feature prominently in jokes about Black Country dialect.
In 1996, Josie Lawrence was awarded an honorary doctorate of arts by Dartington, and she has since been awarded a further two, an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Wolverhampton in 2004 and in 2006 a doctorate by Aston University for "services to the entertainment industry."
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