AN ITV Airline star has “returned to the airways,” 27 years on from finding fame on the hit fly-on-the-wall docu-soap.
back in the late 1990s after she was hailed for her off-the-cuff jibes at disorganised EasyJet passengers.
Jane Boulton quickly found herself in the spotlight after fans fell in love with her sarcastic personality Credit: Rex
The ITV star recently appeared in a Betfair advert as a flight attendant Credit: Instagram/betfair
The TV star quit the airline biz in 2014 and explained on the Beyond the Barclay podcast that there’s “a lot less help” for passengers at the airport nowadays.
Jane has had quite the resurgence online after her hilarious one liners went viral on with a completely new audience.
The 55-year-old took the opportunity to pay tribute to her Airline days, 27 years later as she appeared in a Betfairways advert as a flight attendant.
And Jane did not disappoint as she brought back the cheeky comments that many fans know and love.
Appearing in the video, wearing their famous yellow, she said: “Welcome aboard this Betfairways flight WC 1996 to the United States. Please ensure you stow all your emotional baggage and unreal expectations in the lockers overhead or under the seat in front of you.
“In case of an emergency you might want to bring on palmer down the left and stick the big man up top. Pickford flaps at crosses. So, defenders please make sure your six yard box securely tightened before free kicks.
“If we experience turbulence this is perfectly normal. Remain calm, seated and blame the extra long Premier League season or the weather or the cooling breaks or the referee or the ticket prices.”
She added: “In the unlikely event that we reach the final, oxygen masks will drop from the panel above you. Breather normally and repeat after me ‘It’s coming home.'”
One fan commented: “I feel like Jane is cheating on EasyJet by wearing Betfair yellow.”
Another said: “She’s so back.”
Jane was a longstanding star of Airline, appearing onscreen from 1999 until she left to work for at Heathrow airport in 2006.
Her most famous sarcastic lines include, “It’s easier if you get here on time,” and “It’s a plane, not a bus.”
Despite her , Jane has also now revealed the downside to her sudden status.
The former EasyJet operations manager confessed: “We were told we were only going to be filmed for a few days and that obviously turned into a few years, and we had no idea it would have 10 million viewers a week or be as popular as it was.
“Just going out to do normal things like my weekly shop at Asda in Luton became a bit of a nightmare. People going through your trolley…“
Poor Jane then recalled a jaw-dropping encounter with a fan and her child.
She continued: “I had one lady who stuck a five-year-old under the toilet stall door when I’d gone for a quick pee to ask if it was me. I think that was really weird.”
The star admitted she unfortunately didn’t “become a millionaire” off the back of the show, she just became a well-known face around Luton.
Airline followed the daily chaos of passengers, ground workers and the flight crew of Britannia Airways in series 1 and later EasyJet – who
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