Wild at Heart debuted on ITV in 2006 to immediate acclaim and remains one of the broadcaster’s top dramas, regularly pulling in audiences of at least seven million viewers. Jill, who won an Olivier award for her stage role in Legally Blonde the Musical, added: “Fiona Lynch is certainly a fun and feisty character and will no doubt cause quite a few headaches for Ed and Danny. Her reappearance will also shed light on the sour demeanour of Ed, played by Robert Bathurst, when it’s revealed that she left him for a younger man. The arrival of Fiona in the show is set to shake up the character dynamics at Leopard’s Den and inject some new energy into the Wild at Heart characters’ lives, as she’s said to be both quick-witted and a “terrible flirt”. But I think it will be a great experience and I’m looking forward to embracing it.” “I’ve been told it is pretty difficult to get used to at first – delivering a scene with an elephant stood next to you. “The wild animal aspect will be something different,” Jill said. The plains are a far cry from her normal TV work, which includes shows such as Byker Grove, Coronation Street, EastEnders and Waterloo Road. It seems like a really fun and friendly place to work.”Īnd while she’s looking forward to working with some of Africa’s spectacular wild animals, the actress also has a few reservations. “I am really looking forward to getting involved with the show, it’s a programme that I know well and I have met a few of the cast already. “I’m very lucky to be away in the sun for the winter, although I’ll be back home for Christmas. “I am absolutely thrilled to be joining the cast of Wild At Heart in Africa,” said the 36-year-old, who triumphed on Strictly Come Dancing in 2004. The 10 hour-long episodes of the drama are being filmed on location at Glen Afric, Africa. Jill, who is based in London, flies out next week to begin filming the new series. She joins Stephen Tompkinson, Dawn Steele, Hayley Mills and Deon Stewardson in the seventh series of the popular ITV1 drama, to be screened next year. Gateshead-born Jill – who was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Gateshead this month – is set to play Ed Lynch’s estranged wife Fiona in the show, set in Africa. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.TYNESIDE actress Jill Halfpenny is set to star in the ITV drama Wild at Heart. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Continue without accepting’ or ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices or learn more. The premise is that a veterinarian and his new wife get overwhelmed with big city life in London and jump on an opportunity to move to Africa with their difficult blended family to help establish a wildlife preserve/resort and forge real family bonds while doing so. Third parties use cookies for the purposes of displaying and measuring personalised advertisements, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Wild at Heart is an ongoing British TV drama which is currently broadcasting its fifth season in the UK. This includes using first- and third-party cookies which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we will also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences, and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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