Agutter Loves Eminem

Rap star EMINEM has won over an unlikely fan - 55-year-old British actress JENNY AGUTTER.

The Railway Children star is a big admirer of the Without Me rapper, likening him to the iconic 16th century English playwright William Shakespeare.

She says, "I do have a soft spot for Eminem and I really like good rap. I started to get interested in it when I went to live in Los Angeles. Good rap is fantastic, like the iambic pentameters that Shakepeare wrote in.

"And Eminem's lyrics are particularly clever. Of course, rap does reveal a world which is quite vicious and nasty, nothing like mine, but it can be funny too."