Michelle Keegan teases her future on hit BBC drama Ten Pound Poms – as she prepares to welcome first baby
PREGNANT Michelle Keegan has teased her future on the popular BBC drama Ten Pound Poms as she prepares to welcome her first baby.
Michelle, 37, who is due just before summer, starred in the first series of the hugely successful drama as nurse Kate Thorne, who travelled to Australia to track down her son.
Season two will start on Sunday, March 9, and will see Kate and the gang head into the year 1957, with everyone determined to finally settle and feel peace and relaxation Down Under.
Ahead of the new series airing, Michelle spoke to The Sun’s TV Mag and hinted at her future on the show, despite her impending motherhood.
Michelle said she remains “hopeful” that she’ll be able to return to Australia and see some of the sights recommended to her by her Aussie colleagues.
She said: “Hopefully if I’m back, ever back, I will definitely go.”
She added how she enjoyed being in Australia much more the second time around, which bodes well for the future too.
She said: “I feel like when you come back to do a second season anyway, and when the audience has taken to it so well, it’s like a sense of relief almost.
“Like you feel like a weight’s been lifted off your shoulders and you can sort of enjoy it a little bit more.
“So for me, going back to Australia, I really enjoyed it this time. We had better weather.”
The stunning actress also discussed her experience working with young Australian actor Alastair Bradman, who plays her son Michael on the show.
She said: “He was so professional. There wasn’t one day where he didn’t know his lines.
“He’s so talented, very professional, so sweet. And he took direction really, really well.
“When you watch him on screen and he just, he breaks your heart. He breaks your heart, his little angelic face. He’s just, he’s so good. He’s brilliant.”
Michelle and her former TOWIE star husband Mark Wright shared the news of their pregnancy on Instagram last December by posting a photograph of Michelle cradling her blossoming bump.
The pair announced their happy baby news after nine years of marriage with a stunning photoshoot in Mallorca.
FUTURE PLANS
Since their baby announcement, Michelle and Mark have been targeted for a fly-on-the-wall series documenting their journey into parenthood – but despite offers, Mark recently said it’s unlikely they will.
He explained: “A lot of production companies have pitched but we’ve kindly said no, at the moment.
“Career-wise, we’re both so busy doing our own separate things. Michelle’s on a journey with her acting career and I’m doing my presenting and other stuff.”
He added: “We love the fact that we keep our work separate and we come home to be together for our personal time. That’s just how we’re going to keep it for now.”
Ten Pound Poms returns Sunday, March 9 at 8pm on BBC One.