The funny woman, who is preparing to embark on her Skinny Bitch UK tour, is now a svelte size 12, and enjoying huge success on the US comedy circuit after quitting Blighty.

Having moved to Los Angeles last year, Yashere made history by being the first Brit to appear on the legendary Def Jam Comedy television series. Speaking in an exclusive interview from L A, Gina told New Nation: ‘I’m loving LA! I’m starting again as a comedian from the bottom but it’s worth it.

‘I went to Thailand and did a detox regime over there. Afterwards I found I couldn’t eat the same things I was eating before and my whole digestion system had changed; I started looking after myself more, my whole outlook has changed.’

Gina, who also plans to star in her own reality show, feels black performers are limited in the UK: ‘There’s a glass ceiling in the UK, I’ve done all I could do at home. There’s not enough room for all the black comedians in England. It’s like going to a club: the one in one out policy. One black person gets a TV show and no one else is gonna get one until that black person has gone.

‘I’m one of the most successful black comedians in the UK but I’m never gonna get the same opportunities as Rus sel l Brand or Ricky Gervais, or any white comedian. If you make it as black comedian in America, you have really made it, they ain’t struggling for TV shows and films,’ she says.

‘England is about 30 years behind America. Have a look at Estelle, she’s a prime example. She was making her music here and nothing was happening for her and then within a year and a half in America she’s working with John Legend and Kanye West and has a number one single – she would not have been able to do that in the UK.

‘There are countless examples, Idris Elba, Marianne Jean-Baptiste….’ Despite being well known in the UK, Yashere has found the obscurity in the States humbling.

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