As well as exploring his links to Stoke-on-Trent, Jones spent the programme checking out the acting dynasty on his mother’s side as well as his family’s links to India, where his great-great grandfather was stationed with the British Army.<\/p>\n
Miller said the experience with Jones had helped to confirm rumours of connections his family had to India as well.<\/p>\n
“We’ve since stayed in touch via email, obviously he’s a big Stoke City fan, as am I,” Miller added.<\/p>\n
“I live in hope that one day we’ll get to meet up again, maybe when he comes to watch Stoke City or something.”<\/p>\n
Known for roles in Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Detectorists and Indiana Jones, the actor still has links to his Potteries roots, partly as patron of Claybody Theatre.<\/p>\n
He also portrayed former Stoke City kit man and circus clown Neil Baldwin, known as Nello, in the 2014 Bafta-winning BBC film Marvellous. <\/p>\n
His father, Freddie Jones, was born in Dresden and worked at the British Ceramics Research Association in Penkhull before going on to become an acclaimed actor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As well as exploring his links to Stoke-on-Trent, Jones spent the programme checking out the acting dynasty on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-696798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}