Edina Monsoon have made her successful. In the first episode, "Fashion", she prides herself as "going down in history as the woman that put Princess Anne in a Vivienne Westwood basque." She has a totally incompetent PA named Bubble (Jane Horrocks), whom Edina employs because she makes her look more competent. Edina visits her office infrequently, and only for a few hours at a time, preferring to spend her days shopping and lunching with her best friend Patsy. More often than not, Edina's business ventures fail rather than triumph. She is easily distracted, averse to work, and shows little knowledge of her
Lill Roughley six comedy plays for television, and again in 1992's "Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast". Also in 1992 she played Alice in the first series of "Mulberry". In the following years Roughley appeared in "Minder", "A Touch of Frost", the film "Brassed Off", "Hetty Wainthropp Investigates", "Dinnerladies" (another collaboration with Victoria Wood), "Absolutely Fabulous" (in the 2001 episode of the series, called "Small Openings", as the "actress" portraying Edina in the play written by Saffron, based on her own life) and "Heartbeat". Roughley played Lorraine Thomson in one episode of "Coronation Street", which aired on 17 May 1996. She also played