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Here is the second part of the interview! Interesting news about his new project!

Section C – Much Ado specific

Your portrayal of Benedick had the critics raving – how did you put together your take on such a well known character ? 

We had a long rehearsal – maybe too long. I just played and explored each scene for itself, tried not to worry about the picture, the arc of the story too much. That’s for the audience to see. Stole as much as I could from other Benedicks ! 

You played Benedick for over six months – what did you do to keep the character fresh ? 

Kept trying new things – within reason. Tuned in to the very different atmosphere that each audience brings every night. Concentrated on the other actors.

Are there any lines of Benedicks that you particularly relish ? (As you may have picked up, Susannah is a big fan of “Serve God, love ……me, and mend” for some reason. Karen particularly likes “Come …I will have thee”)

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you, is that not strange ?”

Section D – The future

You have mentioned that you will be starring with Max Beesley and Laura Fraser in a new series for ITV – any hints about your character ? 

I play Woody, a radio producer and best friend of Max’s character in the show. Married to Laura Fraser’s character – she and Max have an affair and all hell breaks out ! 

Are you planning to do any more theatre in the near future ?

Its an addiction I’m trying to take a break from. But not for long – I love it too much.

Ta, Joe

Joseph has been exceptionally kind in answering a few (ok more than a few) interview questions put to him by website member Susannah.  Part 1 posted today and Part 2 will be tomorrow. A huge thank you to Joseph for doing this for us.

Section A – Quick Fire Round ….ten starters

Latest Film you saw  Casino Royale – sadly. 

Last Book you read Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett

Best book(s) ever  Nightmare Question ! Ummmmm…… Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) or  David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)

Most coveted part (in a play or film)  Archie Rice in The Entertainer by John Osborne. I’ll have to wait for a few years. 

Role model / hero / heroine My Father 

Music on your iPod/ CD player Smashing Pumpkins, Harry Connick Jnr, Big Star, Teenage Fanclub, Smiths, REM

Couldn’t do without My wife and our children

Biggest fashion mistake Following the motto “function before fashion” my whole life

On holiday (with apologies to the Independent) … culture vulture, beach bum or adrenaline junkie  Beach bum

Best holiday destination  Barbados – Sandpiper Hotel 

Section B – More considered, but somewhat random

We understand that you are a football fan, what team do you support and what position would you play for them, should they tempt you away from acting  Liverpool in Midfield

Do you have any superstitions or routines before you go on stage  A good stretch and warm up. Eat my meal at least an hour before curtain.

How do you keep fit? Are you a gym bunny or a couch potato Theatre keeps me fit – if not, gym when I can.

Your favourite ways to relax Long Baths, nature and the countryside, time with my family.

What attracted you to acting in the first place Not sure – it’s a long story. It just seemed to reach out and grab me when I was 17 or so. Also it seemed a great way to meet girls ! 

What’ s the most interesting question that you have ever been asked in an interview or audition (we’re looking for some hints here !) No idea. Sorry. You’re doing fine.

Hello Magazine Jan 2001

With his character about to leave Peak Practice in a shocking storyline JOSEPH MILLSON spends precious time in Paris with his singer wife Caroline before setting off on a theatre tour. For the past two years actor Joseph Millson has been known to Peak Practice fans as the hunky Dr Sam Morgan. But his female admirers have got a surprise in store, because he will be leaving the show this series, with a shocking storyline involving theft and embezzlement that will shatter his nice-guy image.

Joseph, 26, is married to actress and opera singer Caroline Fitzgerald, 30, whom he met in 1997 when they worked together on the stage production of Salad Days. Just as Joseph finished filming Peak Practice late last year, Caroline landed a role in John Adams' opera El Nino, which was being performed at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris. So Joseph was delighted to spend his first few weeks off work playing househusband to Caroline in their Parisian apartment.

Joseph, why is Paris such a special city for you?

"Three years ago, almost to the day, Caroline was working in Paris and I came out to visit her. Very late one night we decided to visit the top of the Eiffel Tower. It was freezing cold and we were the only people mad enough to be up there, apart from one Japanese tourist. "I'd thought about asking her to marry me several times in the six months that I'd known her, but I'd always swallow my words at the last minute. This time, before I knew it, I said 'Marry me.' But she didn't hear me properly, so I had to say it again! "Afterwards we asked the Japanese man to take our photograph, but all that came out was a tuft of my hair and the night sky of Paris. It didn't matter, though, was because the main thing was that Caroline said yes!"

Caroline: "Both times that I've been working in Paris Joseph has been able to stay for a while. So, instead of us being apart because of work, we have been together in our own little world. To me, Paris means Joseph and I being together and being romantic."

What are your favourite places in Paris, Joseph?

"Caroline has been living in an apartment in the Bastille, which is a wonderfully exciting, lively area, a bit like Camden in London. And, of course, the Eiffel Tower will always have special meaning for us."

How did you two first meet?

C: "We were playing opposite each other in Ned Sherrin's production of Salad Days and we had to do a lot of stupid dancing, which made us laugh a lot. Joseph and I were spending loads of time together but I never thought anything of it, we just got on well. I did notice a lot of people in the production were throwing themselves at him - let's face it, he's a very good-looking man! - but he didn't seem interested in becoming an item with anyone. So I was amazed when we found ourselves together as a couple."

Joseph: "I followed Caroline around like a puppy dog the whole time. I finally realised that we were having lunch together, tea breaks and even dinner. Suddenly I realised that she must be getting sick of me. When she told me she wasn't I was delighted."

Joseph, you proposed to Caroline after just six months. Did friends and family worry that you were moving too quickly?

"I think they were a little surprised, but mostly delighted. I know that Caroline's mother was worried we would be impecunious actors for the rest of our days, but then I landed the Peak Practice job."

Caroline, tell us about your wedding in May 1999

"It was a beautiful, typically English wedding. I got married in my parents' village in Berkshire and my stepfather is the local vicar, so he did the service. We held the reception in their garden with the marquee and everything. I made a speech and sang Joseph a song. We kept the whole thing quite quiet, only inviting close friends and family. It was our day."

The role of Dr Morgan was a great break for you, Joseph, but it also meant you and Caroline saw very little of each other. . .

"Compared to most couples that's true. For large parts of 1999 and 2000 I was filming virtually all the time and at one point Caroline was touring with a stage company, so that made things even more complicated. But we always saw each other on a Sunday - I would go and find her, wherever she was, or she would come and visit me. "It was quite tough, because we hadn't been married for very long and we did miss each other badly. But, on the up side, absence does make the heart grow fonder and when we were together we really did cherish our time."

C: "Meeting up together after a week apart was lovely, but I really didn't enjoy being separated from Joseph. We always seemed to be racing up and down motorways and juggling dates in the diary. On a deeper level, I don't believe that your relationship can grow unless you spend a good amount of time together. When my job in Paris comes to an end we are going to go home to our flat in London and not answer the phone to anyone for a couple of weeks, if not longer."

What do you and Joseph plan to do with all your spare time?

"We bought our two-bedroom flat 18 months but so far we haven't found the time to do any work on it - and boy does it need it! So we'll be spending much of January going to DIY shops and arguing over the colour of paint. That's the theory, anyway - whether we actually get round to doing any decorating remains to be seen."

What is your next job, Joseph?

"I've landed a lovely theatre job with a company called Shared Experience and I start work in February. We are doing The Mill On The Floss, touring the UK, then doing a West End run. After that we are going to America, then to China, which will be an amazing experience. Caroline will be coming out to visit me there for our third wedding anniversary. I'm actually extremely nervous about doing theatre again, because acting on TV is completely different. I hope I'm up to it! And if all goes plan, I should be doing a TV show by the end of the year."

Does it feel strange to have left Peak Practice?

"I was very sad to leave the people there and I will miss the beautiful Derbyshire countryside, but I won't miss the job. I was there for two years, during which time I was in five series and 50 episodes, so you can imagine that I felt pretty drained at the end of it. I'm only six years into my career and I feel it is important to take some risks, even if it means being out of work. This may be my last chance to make that decision based on artistic rather than financial criteria. Once you have a family to support your priorities change."

Caroline, is Joseph romantic?

"I think he is. His proposal was pretty romantic and for my last birthday he bought me a red MGF sports car, which he managed to keep hidden from me two months. On the morning of my birthday he took me to the bottom of the garden and said, 'Look, there's one of those cars that you like.' We started peering through the windows, then he said, 'It's open, let's get in.' I was horrified, thinking that the owner was going to come out and accuse us of car theft, but he finally convinced me to climb in and admire the interior. Then Joseph produced the keys. It was a fantastic surprise!"

What is it about your relationship that works so well?

"Well, obviously Caroline is very beautiful and gets more beautiful with each passing year, whereas I am starting to fall apart fast! She is also very bright, quite sensible and level headed and tends to make the right decisions about things, whereas I am more impulsive."

C: "We find each other hugely attractive, which helps! Seriously, though, we have huge similarities. We are both ambitious and prepared to put the effort into our work. We are both looking forward to starting a family in the not-too-distant future. We also both had incredibly loving, secure childhoods, which I think makes us less afraid to give and receive love."

Joseph, when you aren't working, what do you do for relaxation?

J: "I'm a real home bird! I grew up in the middle of the Berkshire countryside, seven miles from the nearest bright lights, so I never got into nightclubbing. I enjoy a good night out as much as the next person, but I prefer to be at home reading a book or watching a film. I know I sound boring. I'm middle-age before my time and I completely admit it!"

C: "He's not that sensible, you know! He still adores skateboarding and he loves kicking a football around in the back garden. Actually he's quite a good footballer, I went to watch him play at a park game and told him he had to score for me - and he did!"

Do you have any long-term plans?

"We hope we will be lucky enough to start a family in the next few years. I really love children and I've been broody since I was about 16. My father, who is dead now, was the best father you could have hoped for. If I turn out to be half the parent he was I shall be happy."

INTERVIEW BY ISLA WHITCROFT, HELLO MAGAZINE

Sunday Mirror March 2000 by Pauline McLeod

JOSEPH ON CAROLINE

Caroline's very romantic. She's the first and only woman to send me flowers and I cried. We'd met in March 1997 on a tour of Noel Coward's Salad Days, but I left the company before she did.

Ten months later I asked her to marry me while we were in Paris. I know it is a really romantic city, but I didn't really plan it.

I had a week off from the theatre run I was in so I went over to see Caroline who was in a production there.

We decided to go up the Eiffel Tower because we thought it was something lovely to do as a couple, even though it was freezing cold. The inspiration must have been divine as

I never thought, "Oh, this is the Eiffel Tower, it'll be a good moment to pop the question."

It came out of my mouth as, "Marry Me!" - more of an order than a proposal. Caroline could hardly hear me as the wind was howling so I had to repeat it two or three times.

We got a Japanese tourist to take a picture of this wonderfully romantic moment, but what came back from the developer's was a photo of a tuft of my hair.

I didn't even have a ring to give her. I was really skint, but out of the blue, my mum gave me her engagement ring. It was given to my grandmother as her engagement ring, then she gave it to my father for my mother. I hope we'll carry on this tradition.

I should have got Caroline a better wedding ring than I did, but she wanted one that matched mine and as I lose things easily we bought three for me. As Dr Morgan is single in Peak Practice, my wedding ring goes into a little Tupperware box when I'm filming. So far I haven't mislaid it. I've had a few more romantic scenes in the show, but I only ever get my kit off down to my boxer shorts. No disrespect to the actresses, and indeed, men I have done love scenes with on stage, but the whole thing raises about as much interest in me sexually as a cup of tea. In Monogamy, the play I'm doing with Caroline at London's Riverside Studios next month, we don't even snog. If we did, I think that might somehow be a bit voyeuristic. It's a very funny play about the shards of a fairly broken relationship. The first time we did it we had just got married and all we wanted to do after rowing on stage for 60 minutes was to go home and have a cuddle.

CAROLINE ON JOSEPH

Both of us broke a personal rule when we fell for each other... never have a thing with the person you're playing opposite.

I've seen the trauma it causes. One minute the couple are all lovey-dovey and can't work properly and the next, they're arguing and can't work. It just makes life less complicated if you don't get involved.

But we did fall for each other and, as it was definitely a one-off, it was all right.

I was so shocked when Joe asked me to marry him that I wasn't quite sure I'd heard him right. I made him say it again as it sounded so nice.

He's very romantic, quite impulsive and buys things simply because he's thinking of me. We write each other letters when we're apart and he writes straight from the heart.

I've been appearing in touring version of Blood Brothers and one night I took over the starring role when the leading lady wasn't well.

It was in Edinburgh, but Joe jumped straight on a flight and came up which I think was a very romantic gesture.

It was my birthday recently and we spent it together at the cottage Joe lives in when he's filming Peak Practice. I thought we were going for a walk or a pub lunch when he said, "Someone's got the sort of car you like". He dragged me over to this bright red MGF convertible. He pulled at one of the door handles and as it opened, he said: "Why don't you sit inside it?"

I told him I couldn't, as it belonged to somebody else. Then he pulled out a key and said: "Well, you'd better get in and drive it because it's yours."

We got married in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and my stepfather who's a vicar, married us. My brother, who's an opera singer, conducted the choir. But poor Joe had been filming in white water rapids all week, and had picked up a virus. His wedding breakfast was doing somersaults all the time.

Since we've been married the first question I ask a new landlady is: "Do you have a video player?" so I can tape Peak Practice They tend to look at me rather peculiarly until I explain about Joe. And funnily, there's never a problem if I ask if my husband can come and stay.

I don't have a problem with seeing him on screen in a sex scene with someone. It's not as if it's a surprise. I've probably already read the script and met the actress. It is just a job.

I do miss him like mad, but we kind of laugh at our situation. Work is so good for both of us now, but there'll come a time when we don't have any and we'll be together in our home, waiting for the phone to ring.

The Mirror interview by Nathalie Graham February 2000

NAME: Joseph Millson, 25, is Dr Sam Morgan in ITV's Peak Practice.

STATUS: Married to actress Caroline Fitzgerald. LIVES: Flat in North London.

EARNS: "More than I ever dreamt of."

MONEY ATTITUDE: "Since my marriage eight months ago I am trying to save and be more sensible."

EXTRAVAGANCE: Paying pounds 500 for a gargoyle.

PEAK Practice gave Joseph Millson the chance to buy his own home at 24, instead of in his thirties.

He was used to earning subsistence theatre wages, and was resigned to renting a flat for years. But thanks to his TV breakthrough he bought a two-bedroom garden flat in Kentish Town last June for £ 135,000.

The couple pay around £ 550 a month for their £ 115,000 Open Plan Mortgage with the Woolwich.

If Joseph goes back into lower-paid theatre work, he can reduce the amount he pays, and if he ever has a cash lump sum he can clear some of the loan.

He recently bought a new MGF two-seater sports car for his wife's birthday. "I won't say what I paid," he says, "but it was more than the deposit on our flat."

He started looking ahead at a young age, taking out a pension plan with Lincoln Financial Group at just 23. "My generation is unlikely to see a state pension," he says.

At first he could afford only £ 35 a month, but has now boosted his contributions to £ 250 a month.

Daily Mirror Sept 1999 interview with Clare Raymond

If it had been any other teenager it would have been just another minor accident, but when Joseph Millson gashed his knee a major trauma followed that almost cost him his life.

He suffered a heart attack, then paralysis, and he was convinced he was going to die. That near-fatal day ten years ago still haunts the rising star of Peak Practice, because Joseph has an allergy to local anaesthetic that is so severe it could kill him.

Ironically, the heartthrob television doctor certainly looks healthy enough. At 25, he is outstandingly handsome with moody, brown eyes, olive skin, a scratching of designer stubble and swept-back glossy brown hair.

But he winces as he rubs his jaw. He has suffered toothache for two years and now the pain is such that he has to overcome his understandable fear and go to the dentist's.

"I can feel something major needs doing - probably a root canal job," Joseph groans. "But I haven't been to the dentist for eight years and I'm dreading it.

"I have a genuine, very rare allergy to local anaesthetic. So whenever I have to have serious work done on my teeth, I have to go under general anaesthetic, which is a different drug. I have to go into hospital and be knocked out."

Wearing a Medic Alert necklace to warn of his life-threatening complaint, Joseph, who recently got married, carefully takes a sip of tea through the side of his mouth as he remembers his drama as a 15-year-old.

"I was playing football when I fell on some glass and cut my knee," he explains. "Stupidly, I rode my bike home and made it worse, so my mum took me to hospital. I loved gore and I was looking forward to having my first stitches.

"I watched as the anaesthetic was injected into my leg and that's the last thing I remember. Apparently I turned blue and went stiff like a rock. Then I started having fits and my eyes began to roll. I was told later that I'd been having a heart attack."

Joseph lost consciousness, but when he came to his entire body was paralysed. And when he tried to tell the hospital staff, no sound would come from his lips.

"My hearing returned first and I could hear my mum talking to the nurses," he says. "Then my eyes opened and I could see the doctors and nurses staring down at me. I tried to move my body but nothing happened no matter how hard I tried. I started to panic. But I was completely paralysed and it was the scariest experience of my life.

"I was paralysed for about 15 minutes but it felt like a year. Terrible thoughts went through my mind that I would be stuck like this forever and I was terrified.

"When the doctors moved away I could see a Postman Pat mobile hanging from the ceiling and I tried to change my line of vision, but I couldn't. I was so annoyed that they'd put me on a children's ward and I hated looking at that stupid mobile.

"I was trying to talk but I couldn't make a noise so I concentrated really hard on making myself heard. It was so frustrating and extremely frightening. Eventually, one of the nurses said, 'Would you like a cup of tea, Mr Millson?' and I blurted out, 'Weaargghhh'. That was such a relief.

"About two years later I was taken into hospital with a broken wrist and I was put in the same bed with the Postman Pat mobile. I couldn't believe it. I had a number of accidents as a youngster and got to know the casualty unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading quite well."

Since then he's had an assortment of sporting injuries, but has had to endure treatment without painkillers.

"I've had about 16 stitches in my nose and lip and several fillings with no anaesthetic," he says."I'm not big and brave - I invent new swear words every time.

"I've been so busy for the last six or seven years that I haven't had time to go to an allergy clinic and have it investigated."

You would imagine that the experience would serve Joseph well for his role as Dr Sam Morgan in Peak Practice, which returns for a new series this week. But far from it - and there were some embarrassing moments when he spent several days learning the ropes with a real GP in Derbyshire.

"He made a minor incision on someone and I passed clean out on the surgery floor, giving myself a bump on the head," Joseph says. "Because of my allergy, I'm actually very squeamish."

Fine credentials for a man whose name has just gone above the door at The Beeches alongside Britain's favourite GPs, Andrew Attwood, played by Gary Mavers, and Joanna Graham (Haydn Gwynne). But it is probably Joseph's obvious sex appeal that the show's bosses are keen to exploit rather than his bedside manner.

As we talk, he's clearly self-assured and friendly. He's dressed in trendy combat trousers, a stone-coloured collarless shirt and Adidas trainers, with shades propped casually on his head. He enticingly promises steamy sex - as his role develops in the show. "When I started last year, the scriptwriters didn't have much of an idea what my character would be like. All I knew was that he was young, travelled abroad and this was his first job."

There's a love interest too, when Dr Sam has a one-night stand, and Joseph strips on TV for the first time.

"I get my kit off in the last episode," he says. "There is nothing as unsexy as doing love scenes in front of a film crew. It's the biggest turn-off in the world. You're supposed to block them out, but I can't.

"I don't see how any actor can enjoy a love scene - they're so technical. I was too busy choreographing my body to make sure my arm was hiding our little bits. I've been nude on stage a few times, in Romeo And Juliet when I was about 19, for example."

Joseph expects to stay in Peak Practice for at least another year and he's pleased that there's more action in the show.

"There's a big life-saving episode in the middle of the series where Attwood gets stuck in a river," he says. "We were filming in a wide river for a week. We had to hold our breath and go down 16 feet with weights to the bottom. That was scary."

In fact, that scene was filmed in May, the week before Joseph wed actress Caroline Fitzgerald, 30. They were married by Caroline's stepfather, the local vicar.

So what's it like being a married man?

"Great," he gushes, enthusiastically. Then he breaks the spell. "I never see her."

He goes on to explain that Caroline is very busy, currently touring in the musical Blood Brothers and that the couple's work keeps them apart a lot. They met three years ago, touring in Ned Sherrin's musical production of Salad Days.

"We played opposite each other and we got on brilliantly on stage," says Joseph. "We made each other laugh a lot. Then we broke a taboo by dating each other. I had never had an entanglement on a job and nor had she. Both of us had vowed not to go out with anyone on a tour because we'd seen it be disastrous for other people. But we couldn't stop ourselves.

"It was friendship at first sight - love at second or third sight. Caroline possesses qualities I don't have - like wisdom. I'm impulsive and she has more of a head on her shoulders. And she's beautiful."

He proposed on the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris in February 1998 when Caroline was working there in an opera.

"It wasn't very romantic, it was freezing," he says. "We hadn't talked about it - it just happened. It had crossed my mind and had come to my lips in the past, but I swallowed it. That day, it just popped out. I'm usually such a loudmouth but that was the quietest I'd ever spoken.

"Caroline had to say, 'What?' And I had to ask three times.

"I don't think I'm that young to be married. My parents got married at 17 and by the time they were my age, they had my brother and me. We want children, definitely, maybe in a year or two.

" So how does Caroline feel about watching him make love to another woman on TV?

"It's not very nice to watch," he admits. "I doubt she'll be running that episode on the video. But she realises it's part of the job.

" They've just bought a pounds 134,000 two bedroom garden flat in North London's Kentish Town. And last week, the couple had a week's break. But rather than go away, they did a play together for Joseph's theatre company, Pursued By A Bear, which is based in Greenwich, South London.

"We love working together," he says. "It's the only way we get to see each other and I hope we'll do it a lot more often.

"There's something rather lovely about going out in the evening and having an argument on stage as your job. When you go home the last thing you want to do is row, you just want to have a nice hug.

" He talks of an idyllic childhood. For the first ten years of his life his parents, Arthur and Joyce, ran a country pub, The Bullion in Stanford Dingley, Berkshire, and after that they moved to Sadgrove Farm at nearby Bucklebury. Now his mum and dad run another pub, the Hare And Hounds in Old Warden, Bedfordshire. He also has a brother Pete, 29, who is a photographer. But there is now another health drama blighting family life as his 47-year old father is fighting leukaemia.

"He's doing amazingly well with chemotherapy at the moment," says Joseph."It was discovered four years ago and he had treatment straight away which was successful. He had a couple of years' remission and it came back about three months ago. He still works four days a week.

"I don't see enough of him because of my job but now whenever I'm driving home from Derbyshire to London, I take a detour and visit mum and dad.

" His parents are proud of his success, he says, but adds, "They would have been happy if I'd chosen the Mafia as a career - anything I wanted. They were a couple of hippies.

"My parents had very different spells of income. For two or three years, they were extremely wealthy and from eight to ten I went to Brockhurst public school.

"But then my dad went bankrupt and I was sent to the roughest secondary school in Berkshire. It was such a culture shock.

"I was speaking very poshly and called all the teachers 'Sir' until one of them said, 'No, my name's Phil'. I said, 'Sorry, Sir'.

"I had a terrible haircut and I did get beaten up. But it was a very good education because I saw both sides of the track. I was a very naughty boy and I skived off school a lot. The only lessons I bothered turning up for were English, drama and history.

" His time at school ended abruptly at 16 when he was suspended shortly before he took GCSEs - for punching the headmaster.

"When he arrived he changed the colour of the school shirts," says Joseph. "My mother said, 'Don't be ridiculous, you're leaving soon, so just wear the old blue shirt'.

"This headteacher, called Mr Dick, used to grab me in the corridor because I waswearing the wrong shirt. One time he nearly knocked me down a flight of stairs so I clouted him, giving him a bloody lip.

"My parents had taught me to stand up for myself. If there was a dispute with a teacher, my father took my side. He'd threaten to clout the teachers.

" Joseph went back to school only to take three GCSEs in the subjects he'd bothered turning up for - and passed. Rather than get a job at 16, he went on a performing arts course because he didn't want to work.

He later earned a First Class BA (Hons) degree at his London drama school.

"I wasn't stage-struck as a kid," he says. "I was 18 before it crossed my mind that I would be an actor for a living. Before that I thought I was going to be a professional footballer - I had trials for Reading. But I wasn't good enough. Then I was going to be a professional surfer or skateboarder.

" But now that he has settled on acting, he's sure he's made the right career choice. He was on TV for just six weeks during his first series of Peak Practice, but the fan mail is still coming in. "I've never been recognised in the street," he says. "Maybe that will start to happen after this series. I'm getting quite a good gay following, which is fine by me, very flattering. And lots of polite letters from teenage girls.

" He glances at his watch and frown lines appear on face. "The dentist," he says, ominously. "I'd better go."

And he disappears, nervously putting his life in somebody else's hands.