{"id":39031,"date":"2025-09-23T15:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/39031\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T15:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:44:09","slug":"david-tennant-left-embarrassed-and-on-the-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/39031\/","title":{"rendered":"David Tennant left \u2018embarrassed and on the floor\u2019\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Tennant<\/a> has revealed he was left \u201cembarrassed and on the floor\u201d after injuring himself during a sex scene for the hit Disney<\/a>+ drama Rivals.<\/p>\n

The 54-year-old actor, who stars as Tony, Lord Baddingham in the Jilly Cooper adaptation, told This Morning hosts Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley that a love scene went unexpectedly wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes I did,\u201d he explained. \u201cI was launching myself onto a wooden bed, but unfortunately my knee collided with the bed frame in a rather unfortunate way. Not very sexy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shephard joked about whether Tennant now uses a stunt double for intimate scenes.<\/p>\n

Tennant<\/a> laughed: \u201cYou can never quite tell when you are going to fall over and embarrass yourself, can you? <\/p>\n

\u201dBut you certainly don’t want to do it when you’re wearing a modesty pouch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tennant plays Lord Tony Baddingham in the drama (Disney+)<\/p>\n

The second series of Rivals, based on Cooper\u2019s bestselling Rutshire Chronicles novel, dives into the ruthless world of 1980s British television, where power struggles unfold in boardrooms and bedrooms alike.<\/p>\n

In May, it was announced that the show would return with an extended 12-episode second series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tennant joins an ensemble cast including Aidan Turner, Victoria Smurfit and Emily Atack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Danny Dyer will also return to play businessman Freddie Jones for which he won the British Press Guild Award for best actor and the RTS Television Award for supporting actor.<\/p>\n

Throughout the fast-paced and emotionally charged first series, Dyer\u2019s character was seen to have a slow-burn romance with Lizzie Vereker, played by The IT Crowd<\/a>\u2019s Katherine Parkinson<\/a> who was nominated for a Bafta TV Award for supporting actress.<\/p>\n

Dame Jilly, executive producer and Rivals author, said of the upcoming series, which began filming in April: \u201cI\u2019m utterly sex-static filming for the second season is upon us.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m delighted to be able to work with them again and for everyone to see what further mischief they all get up to!\u201d<\/p>\n

The first series of Rivals was released in October with eight episodes and received six nominations across the Bafta TV awards, along with a nod in the memorable moment category, for the moment Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) and Sarah Stratton (Atack) were caught playing naked tennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Tennant has revealed he was left \u201cembarrassed and on the floor\u201d after injuring himself during a sex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[251,784,156,788,782,111,43,785,783,786,139,69,787,437,255],"class_list":["post-39031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-breaking-news","tag-daily-news","tag-entertainment","tag-global-news","tag-inkl","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-today-news","tag-tv","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}