Fiona Dolman has portrayed Sarah Barnaby within the beloved ITV drama Midsomer Murders for 15 years.
Fiona, 56, seems on a repeated episode of Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh this Sunday, the place she talks all concerning the iconic ITV homicide thriller sequence.
The previous episode in query from sequence 4, which aired in 2022, noticed Fiona additionally discuss working with Neil Dudgeon, who performs her husband, DCI John Barnaby.
Fiona opened up about their working relationship, admitting there generally is a good bit of “naughtiness” when the pair are on set collectively. Host Alan, 77, commented: (*15*)
Fiona joined Alan Titchmarsh to debate her profession -Credit:ITV
Fiona smiled and defined: “Yeah! We got on from, I think, day one really, he is a fantastically good actor, and he is great fun to work with.
“There is an actual naughtiness, and we’ll talk about how we’re going to do one thing, after which he’ll simply toss something barely totally different.
“So we have a lot of fun playing them, but obviously it is 10 years, and you don’t get that a lot as an actor, so it means that we sort of fall into that role of being that old married couple.
“You do barely bicker, and I’ll get a script by way of the put up, and I’ll learn it, and I can, I snort as a result of I can see what he’s going to do or how he’s going to say one thing!”.
The past episode in question from series four saw Fiona also talk about working with Neil Dudgeon -Credit:mark bourdillon/ITV
Alan also raised the remarkable fact that she had remained part of the show despite the then staggering 400 on-screen deaths that have taken place across the then 25 years the series has been on air.
He teased: “Midsomer has been going now for 25 years, when you see little issues coming into the script like the wedding is getting a bit of rocky, then be very fearful!
“It’s like treasure island, if you get a piece of paper with a black spot on it, be careful, be very afraid, everyone else in Midsomer is gone, but I’m sure you won’t be next!” to which Fiona hilariously pleaded: “Please don’t kill me off!”
Throughout her stint on the programme, Fiona’s real-life being pregnant was included into the storyline. The plot noticed Sarah and John welcome their daughter Betty, with twin women solid to painting their baby.
Fiona has beforehand spoken candidly about taking pictures scenes with two new child infants and disclosed that she witnessed a special facet to Neil.
Fiona’s real-life being pregnant was included right into a storyline. -Credit:mark bourdillon/ITV
Back in 2015, Fiona defined: “We get a lot of time between takes to play with the girls and make silly baby noises. You can get giggles out of them now, and it’s been fun seeing that side of Neil, it brings out the clown in him.”
However, Neil described filming with the twins as “challenging”. He confessed one of many infants disliked being secured into the pushchair whereas he and Fiona delivered their strains.
This resulted within the child “screaming her head off” through the take. Despite the screaming, Neil praised the “spontaneous quality” of his younger co-stars, telling Daily Mail’s Weekend Magazine that they made the scenes “more real.”
The show is shot nearly solely on location throughout the Chilterns space of Buckinghamshire and the encircling counties of Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Surrey.
Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh airs Sundays at 10am on ITV
