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'Cold Feet' Revival Is 'Going To Happen', Says Star John Thomson

'Cold Feet' Star Speaks Out On Revival Rumours
Ashley Percival
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‘Cold Feet’ star John Thomson has confirmed reports the 90s comedy drama is being revived.

Last month, it was claimed ITV bosses were bringing back the show to fill the Sunday slot that’s set to be vacated when ‘Downton Abbey’ ends later this year.

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The original cast of 'Cold Feet'

Now John - who played Pete Gifford - has spoken out about the plans, telling the BBC (via The Sun): “It is pretty pretty much going to go... It’s gonna happen.

“A lot of people have contacted me on social media and I am not really in position yet to say A) it’s one hundred per cent green lit and B) all the deals have been done everyone has signed, but I would say it is highly likely.”

Adding of what made the show so successful, he added: “What made it so special was the casting. It was a dream team and we all worked so well together.

“There are naysayers who have come out about it going again, and it’s gonna happen, because a few other things have come back and have not cut the mustard.

“But the beauty of it is that we were all forty-somethings then. It was a different time the Nineties; there was no recession, everyone was all right and we were ticking along and were quite affluent and there weren’t too many worries.

"But now things have changed quite a lot and the problems are different. We are in our late forties and going into fifties and our kids have grown up. It is twelve years since the last one. It is a different ball game this time,” he added.

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John Thomson has spoken about the show's return

Cold Feet originally ran for five series from 1998 to 2003, and turned its cast - James Nesbitt, Helen Baxendale, Fay Ripley, Robert Bathurst, Hermione Norris, and Kimberley Joseph - into household names.

However, producers have a headache with what to do about Helen’s character Rachel Bradley, who died in the last series, with John adding: “The tricky thing is Helen, because she was killed at the end..”

An ITV spokesperson previously denied ‘Cold Feet’ was coming back, saying: "This is speculation. There is always so much interest in a ‘Cold Feet’ reunion."

If it does go ahead, the show isn’t expected to be back on our screens until autumn next year.

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James Nesbitt played Adam Williams... (credit:Rex)
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Since appearing in ‘Cold Feet’, James has gone on to become one of the country’s most popular actors. He's played the lead role in five series of BBC crime drama ‘Murphy’s Law’, starred as the titular character in a new adaptation of ‘Jekyll’ and also featured in ‘The Passion’, a story of the last week in the life of Jesus. He was most recently seen in 2014’s BAFTA nominated series ‘The Missing’, where James played the father of a missing child. (credit:Rex)
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Helen Baxendale played Rachel Bradley... (credit:Rex)
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At around the same time Helen appeared on ‘Cold Feet’, she landed a guest role as Ross Geller’s girlfriend, Emily, on ‘Friends’ and subsequently had some exposure on US TV. But she returned home to Britain star in more episodes of the ITV drama, before Rachel was killed off in the final season's dramatic car crash. After her exit, Helen said she was taking time out of acting to bring up her young children. After she returned to work three years later, Helen enjoyed guest parts in series such as Agatha Christie’s ‘Marple’ and ‘Poirot’, ‘Lewis’ and ‘Inspector George Gently’. But her most high-profile role was in BBC Three sitcom ‘Cuckoo’, which was recently renewed for a third series. (credit:Rex)
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Fay Ripley played Jenny Gifford... (credit:Rex)
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Fay first left ‘Cold Feet’ in series four, but returned for the funeral of Rachel Bradley in the final series. Since then, the actress has lent her voice to a BBC adaptation of children’s book ‘Fungus The Bogeyman’, starred in sitcom ‘Reggie Perrin’ and had guest roles in ‘New Tricks’, ‘Monday Monday’ and ‘Hustle’. In 2014, she starred in Channel 5’s police procedural drama ‘Suspects’, as well as ITV sitcom ‘The Delivery Man’. (credit:Rex)
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John Thomson played Pete Gifford... (credit:Rex)
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John has enjoyed plenty of success since the end of ‘Cold Feet’, most notably starring in ‘Coronation Street’ as Eileen Grimshaw’s love interest Jesse, and ‘Waterloo Road’ as a parent of one of the students. As well as roles in BBC drama ‘New Street Law’ and the third series of ITV’s ‘Kingdom’ alongside former co-stars Robert Bathurst and Hermione Norris, John has also dabbled in reality TV. He’s appeared on ‘Comic Relief Does Fame Academy’, celebrity survival series ‘71 Degrees North’ and the 2013 series of ‘Celebrity Masterchef’. John was most recently seen playing various characters on ‘The Keith Lemon Sketch Show’. (credit:Rex)
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Hermione Norris played Karen Marsden... (credit:Rex)
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Hermione has arguably had the biggest amount of success since the end of ‘Cold Feet’, appearing alongside Robson Green in crime series ‘Wire In The Blood’, as Ros Myers in BBC spy drama ‘Spooks’ and in ITV drama ‘Kingdom’ as Beatrice Kingdom. She’s also starred in BBC series ‘The Crimson Field’, ‘In The Club’ and ‘Outcasts’, as well as bagging a role in ‘Doctor Who’ episode ‘Kill The Moon’ last year. Hermione recently appeared alongside Robert Bathurst in Sky One's ‘Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death’. (credit:Rex)
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Robert Bathurst played David Marsden... (credit:Rex)
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Robert has had a number of high-profiles in ‘The Pillars of the Earth’, ‘Wild at Heart’, ‘Downton Abbey’ and ‘Poirot’, as well as starring in children’s sitcom ‘My Dad's The Prime Minister’. He’s also returned to the stage, starring in a number of West End productions. Most recently, he appeared in sitcom ‘Blandings’ alongside Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Tim Vine and Mark Williams and in 2014, he had a minor role in ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie’. (credit:Rex)
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Kimberley Joseph played Jo Ellison... (credit:Rex)
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Just two days after filming the final episode of ‘Cold Feet’, Kimberley returned to Australia, where she joined medical soap ‘All Saints’. In 2004, she then began appearing in ‘Lost’ as Cindy Chandler, and featured in 13 episodes before the show ended in 2010. Since then, Kimberley’s appeared in Linkin Park’s video for ‘Castle Of Glass’, and is bringing up her young son Gabriel, who was born in 2013. (credit:Rex)

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