15686/4 A WOMAN who lost her memory after a devastating car crash has been invited to star in a documentary film.

Just four days after Sue Baker's story appeared in the Wiltshire Times, on July 23, she was approached by the BBC and October Films, to make films about her life.

Filming could start as soon as October, once she has decided which to choose.

She said since the article appeared her house has been a hive of activity, with the phone constantly ringing and taxis turning up with contracts for her to sign.

Ms Baker said: "They want to go back to where I was born and start of from there. A film crew are going to follow me around all the time. I suppose it will be a bit of a laugh."

It has given her a glimpse into the world of stardom and made her appreciate what celebrities have to put up with.

"I can actually say that if I was Madonna I would probably have a guard with a gun at the gate," she said.

"But I suppose they are paid lots of money so they put up with it for that."

Ms Baker has not told many people about her approaching stardom.

She has already been on television and in a number of other newspapers since she appeared in the Wiltshire Times.

She said: "Every time I walk out on the street people say 'I saw you on telly'.

"If this film goes ahead I will have to wear a wig or something."

Ms Baker, 55, of Shaw, near Melksham, wrote to the Wiltshire Times in July appealing for help finding friends who could fill in the gaps in her life after she had a car crash which left her with complete memory loss when she was 17.

Ms Baker, who has a 27 year old son, was on her way to the Isle of Wight with her friend, Geraldine Coates, 18, for a weekend away in 1967.

The pair got no further than Limpley Stoke, where the car collided head-on with a lorry.

Geraldine was killed and Ms Baker, nee Nixey, spent six weeks in a coma.

Damage to her pituitary gland meant she suffered complete memory loss.

At the time of the crash she was working for Peter Simper, a fruit machine company, as a switchboard operator and she lived with her parents in Batheaston.

Before that she went to Oldfield School, Bath, and she is appealing for old friends to contact her to help her fill in her memories.

Since the July article in the Wiltshire Times Ms Baker has been inundated with messages from people wishing her well and has also been contacted by a number of old friends.