Hermione Norris has addressed rumours of a Cold Feet reunion after being inundated with questions from fans if the ITV comedy-drama would return.
The actress, 59, played Karen Marsden on the show alongside James Nesbitt. It followed the intertwined lives of three couples.
In a new interview with Prima, Hermione responded to speculation the show would return after six years off air as well as discussing her struggle with long Covid and her children flying the nest.
The screen star told the publication: 'There have been rumours on Facebook, and people keep coming up to us and saying, "I gather Cold Feet is coming back" – but, like anything, we’d be the last people to know. I very much doubt it would come back…
'It would be very nice for our audience, everyone who has been on that journey with us, for it to come back. It’s close to them, it mirrors their own lives.
'Cold Feet was such an intense shared experience, and we’re all still close. John Thomson comes to stay, and Faye (Ripley) and I did DNA Journey last year... We have a WhatsApp group, of course.'
Cold Feet was originally broadcast for five series on ITV from 1998 to 2003 before the show was revived in 2016 to 2020.
Elsewhere in the interview, Hermione spoke about her two children Wilf, 21, and Hero, 18, leaving home.
The actress, who has been married to British screenwriter and TV producer Simon Wheeler, since 2002.
She said: 'It is really weird that our children have left home. My husband feels it. The day-to-day life of school, GCSEs, A-levels, those days are gone.
'I felt quite nervous before my husband and I went on holiday recently, to be honest, but it was really easy and nice just to be together.
'As a couple, you think, "Will we still like each other?" because, for years, it’s all about the functionality and dynamics of a family. It becomes about everyone else.'
Hermione's latest project has been filming Pilgrimage: The Road To Holy Island for the BBC and how she managed while going through Menopause and long Covid.
She said: 'I’m not great at extreme discomfort. I had long Covid a few years ago, so I was worried about my physical fitness and the demands of walking so much every day, plus carrying the backpack. But we did a couple of massive walks and I was fine. I was pleasantly surprised.
'Having been ill [with long Covid], my focus is on being well and healthy. It’s about exercising, not to make me look good but to keep me strong. I stretch a lot, and I’ve really got to start lifting weights.
'I also use an infrared sauna for my autoimmune condition. I get really stiff joints. I’m so much better after the long Covid, but I feel different, physiologically. It gave me a shock, as I’ve always been quite fit and strong.'
Read the full interview in the May issue of Prima, on sale now. Pilgrimage: The Road To Holy Island airs on BBC2 5-7 April
