Former Coronation Street actress Stephanie Beacham reportedly scalded her scalp just days before she entered the Celebrity Big Brother house.

The posh star spilled a saucepan of boiling water in her kitchen, and was more annoyed by the fact that she had ruined her new hairdo than by the pain of the burn.

‘She wasn’t so much bothered about the pain but about the fact that she had just spent £250 on a new hairdo, so she was cross as well as hurt,’ says a friend told The Daily Mail.

‘Her new partner insisted on pouring cold water over her scalded head, but she was very reluctant to let him because it would further ruin her coiffure – she’d had it straightened specially for her Big Brother entrance – but he absolutely insisted.’