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MAXINE PEAKE rejected Tory MP Simon Hart’s accusation of hypocrisy yesterday for being paid to voice an NHS recruitment advert.
The actor responded to an article in the Mail on Sunday in which Mr Hart claimed she has been paid taxpayers’ money for the job.
He added: “I’d have more respect for Maxine if she had forgone the fee and left it with the health service to recruit another nurse.”
Ms Peake wrote on Twitter that her fee wouldn’t have gone back to the NHS if she had returned it and that she donated it to the Salford Foundation Trust children’s charity, of which she is a patron.
She said: “I was not employed by the NHS but by an advertising agency who hold a pre-agreed budget of the whole of the campaign. If I had refused the fee, the money wouldn't have been returned to the NHS but to the commercial agency.”
The ad was launched last month to highlight the work of staff in the health service.
She added: “Thank you to the Mail on Sunday for allowing me to highlight the wonderful and tireless work of the Salford Foundation Trust.”
