Call the Midwife star’s proposal almost ruined by BABOONS
Massive, massive congratulations to Call the Midwife star Victoria Yeates who has just got engaged to her sumptuously beared beau Paul Housden! Hurrah!
And their lovely, lovely news is all the more heartwarming when you consider that the special occasion was almost completely scuppered by a gang of angry BABOONS. Yikes!
The 33-year-old actress, who plays Sister Winifred in the show, was taking a break from the set in South Africa while filming the Christmas special.
“It was a complete surprise,” she told the Sunday Express. “My boyfriend came out to see me and we went on safari and stopped off by a lake.
“He wanted to take my photo and he wanted to get it perfectly right. I thought he was being pedantic but it’s because he was getting the guts up on purpose.
“I just went, ‘That’s it, that’s enough!’ Then he went, ‘I’ve a question to ask?’ I said, ‘What?
“We had been told if we stayed too long the baboons would come, and I was scared.”
Paul, who’s a well-respected composer for film, TV and adverts, then handed Victoria a amethyst engagement ring. The couple have been together for four years.
“I just started laughing and crying because I was so shocked,” laughed Victoria.
The Call the Midwife Christmas special, set in South African in 1962, will see all of the much-loved cast returning except Miranda Hart. TV bosses had previously teased that 43-year-old Miranda would be back as Camilla “Chummy” Fortescue-Cholmondeley-Browne. However, she’s since decided that she can’t squeeze the role into her schedule.
“News: It’s with a heavy heart that having shared Chummy’s return to CTM, I’ve not been able to birth (pun) the schedule to make it work,” she told her weeping followers on Twitter.