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Loretta Swit ‘I NEARLY QUIT MASH!’

It’s 39 years since MASH left our screens, but for the sitcom’s only female star, Loretta Swit – who played lofty head nurse Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan – it feels like just yesterday she was on set.

The 84-year-old says working on the popular show was “heaven”.

“We had this wonderful thing we

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