Karen Freeman, who grew up in Wheatley, Halifax, is one of eight women who feature in When Women Rule The World, a new £2 million Channel 4 show which will will hit our screens at 9pm on September 4.

It will be hosted by T4 heartthrob Steve Jones

Karen, the daughter of Johnny Freeman, said: "The show was filmed on a Caribbean island but no one really knew what to expect.

"Before we got there we weren't told anything about where we were going to, really. I was going in blind."

The show is an eight-part battle of the sexes.

The show sends 10 chauvinistic men to live in a remote village where women rule and men obey.

Karen, 48, studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London then forged a West End career in the late 1970s, appearing in Bubbling Brown Sugar, 42nd Street and Eastbound Expressway.

She has even had a top 20 hit with Mirrorball called Given Up.

The song reached number 12 in 2001 and gave her the opportunity to perform it on Top of the Pops.