She's a household name now but before she was famous, Hull-born actress Maureen Lipman almost picked "Beverley Westwood" for her stage name.
Lipman had made the surprising revelation in a TV interview, filmed when she was just 22. The old footage was replayed when she appeared on The One Show last night.
Before revealing the clip, co-host Matt Baker told her: "I found this fascinating because I know the area where you are from – your name could have been very different!"
Viewers saw a young Lipman telling an interviewer: "I was going to call myself Beverley Westwood at one time because it was an in-joke because outside Hull there's a strip of land called Beverley Westwood where all the courting couples go on an evening.
"I was going to call myself Beverley Westwood. I thought of lots of names, I couldn't find anything I really liked."
Baker pulled up a Google Street View image of Beverley Westwood for viewers unfamiliar with the beauty spot.
Lipman, who decided to stick with her family name for her acting career, said: "Can you believe how I got myself together, I didn't try at all!"
Perhaps best-known for her role as Beattie in the 1980s BT adverts, Lipman has had a successful career on stage, film, radio and television, winning a Bafta for her role as Trish in Educating Rita.
The former Newland High School girl is also a best-selling author and has previously written about her family trips to Beverley Westwood for Burgess's ice cream.
She wrote: "It's a fact that I swore my stage name, if ever I was famous, would be Beverley Westwood."
People in Beverley are hoping the national TV exposure for the Westwood on The One Show will boost interest in the town.
Allan English, chairman of the Beverley Pasture Masters, who are responsible for looking after the common land, said: "Maureen Lipman is a nice actress.
"She's from Hull and doesn't run Hull down like some people. She always promotes the city whenever she can and it's nice to see Beverley Westwood getting a mention from her too.
"It can't do any harm to have a mention for Beverley Westwood, together with a picture of the Westwood on national television, it all helps to put the town on the map."
The award-winning actress was born in Hull in 1946. Her father Maurice Lipman was a tailor in the city. She has said it was her mother, Zelma, who "press-ganged her" into acting.
