[2] She had an acting career in the late 1960s and early 1970s, mainly in bit parts on The Benny Hill Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and several British sex comedies.
[citation needed] After her acting career ended, Flanagan remained in the public eye, owing to her association with the Kray Twins and her efforts to secure their release.
Her involvement with the Kray family went back to her time as hairdresser for the twins' mother Violet.
[3] The book was serialized in the magazine Tit-Bits, accompanied by a blurb which said “Britain’s most photographed model lays bare the facts of her working life in the sauciest story of the year.”[citation needed] Her memoir, One of the Family, was published in 2015.
In the accompanying interview she said her second husband had recently died after a heart transplant operation, and that she was busy raising a 16-year-old son.