Ardal O’Hanlon has shared how much he has missed former co-star Don Warrington after leaving Death in Paradise.
He opened up about his time on the show during an appearance on ITV‘s Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh on Sunday (February 22), after Alan asked if it had been “emotional” leaving the island and long-running co-star Don, who plays Commissioner Selwyn Patterson.
“He’s just brilliant, he’s brilliant,” said Ardal. “I miss him more than anything, actually. I loved Don and we’re still very good friends, but yeah that was kind of a bromance actually.”
He went on: “It always starts off the new detective and you know very, very wary around the inspector but eventually the inspector softens by the end.”
The show is set on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie but is actually filmed mainly in Guadeloupe.
The star said he did “love it” but also said it was “a commitment” as it meant being away filming for months of the year.
“I’m kind of in one way glad I don’t have to do it now because it’s like, it’s gruelling, but I look back at it very fondly,” he said. “It was just a great adventure apart from anything else, as well as being like a, you know, a challenging acting job.”
He also highlighted how special it was having lots of different actors joining the cast every few weeks.
“All these great great people… these people I adored,” he said. “And then you’d also get the hot shots, the up-and-coming people who have gone on to Hollywood now. We got them raw.”
Ardal, who is also known for playing Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted, continued: “Because you take great pride in the island, because I’ve been there for a few years and you get to love it and you can’t wait to show it off to them.
“So on the rare days off you’d bring them to some waterfall that only you know about or some boiling hot part of the sea like, right where the volcano heats the water, you know, that side of it I really, really loved.”
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Death in Paradise airs on the BBC and Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh is on ITV.