Tanya Burr: Theatre role is not because of YouTube fame
Tanya Burr has said there's "a hundred per cent" 'snobbery at work' from those who say she was cast in her debut theatre role because of her youtube fame.
Tanya, who has a fashion and beauty YouTube channel with more than 3.7 million subscribers, will play the lead role in Judy Upton's Nineties-set play Confidence by Boundless Theatre at London's Southwark Playhouse.
In answer to a critic in the theatre publication, The Stage, who referred to it as 'stunt-casting', Tanya told 5 live's Nihal Arthanayake they "probably didn't know she has been studying theatre for years".
This clip is originally from Afternoon Edition on Thursday 26 April 2018.
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