Ashley Jensen once received a pan for Christmas from her boyfriend

Asked the worst gift she had received, she recently told Bella magazine: "Years ago, I got a pan from a boyfriend - not even a set of pans, just one pan that didn't match any of my other pans."

But the best present the former 'Ugly Betty' star was ever given was a digital photo frame.

She said: "I get lots of pleasure from that."

Ashley and her family always enjoy a "quite traditional" celebration on 25 December.

She said: "We have quite a traditional Christmas - watching reruns of festive editions of 'Father Ted' and 'The Vicar of Dibley' and eating Quality Street until we fall asleep."

The 'Extras' star always takes time over Christmas to "reflect" and remember lost loved ones.

She said: "It's a reflective time. I'm not religious but it makes me stop and think about family members who are no longer here with us and creating nice memories.

"I like that people stop and sit still for a minute."

The Scottish actress previously admitted she "felt like an interloper" on the set of 'Ugly Betty'.

She told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: "When I landed a role in 'Ugly Betty' I felt like an interloper that had sneaked in through the backdoor of this glossy sitcom. It was surreal.

"Fifteen years earlier I was putting up theatre sets in community centres and being told to p*** off by local children. I'd worked my way up from the bottom.

"It took me a couple of years to get used to finding myself at awards ceremonies and having a man come round to the house with half a million dollars worth of diamonds for me to wear on a red carpet."