{"id":75681,"date":"2025-08-18T15:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/75681\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:09:11","slug":"death-in-paradises-ralf-little-opens-up-on-will-mellor-getting-them-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/75681\/","title":{"rendered":"Death in Paradise’s Ralf Little opens up on Will Mellor ‘getting them cancelled’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Death in Paradise actor Ralf Little has revealed that he has an ’emergency button’ for his co-star Will Mellor<\/p>\n

Ralf Little, star of Death in Paradise, recently joined Matt Tebbutt on Saturday Kitchen and shared some behind-the-scenes insights about his tour with mate Will Mellor.<\/p>\n

During the chat, Ralf revealed a unique safety measure they’ve implemented for their live shows – a buzzer that he can press if he thinks Will is about to say something potentially career-ending.<\/p>\n

In addition to this, there’s also a phone on set for the producer to step in if needed.<\/p>\n

When quizzed about the buzzer, Ralf detailed: “So, there are two chairs, there is a table between us, and we have two safety measures essentially.<\/p>\n

“One is a big red button that only I’m allowed, it’s near me. The reason for that is Will being Will; there’s a very strong chance that at any moment, he’s going to say something that’s going to get us both cancelled,” reports the Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"WillWill Mellor and Ralf Little(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n

He went on to explain: “So I have an emergency button, and if I think Will is going to say something, I’m like, ‘No,’ and I press the button, and a lot of sirens come on, and his mic cuts off.<\/p>\n

“And because there’s lesser chance, but still a chance, that I might wander into territory that might get us cancelled right, less likely, but not enough to warrant a buzzer, there’s a red phone, an emergency red phone in the middle of the table where the producer at the back of the theater can call us.”<\/p>\n

He concluded by admitting, “It goes off a lot more than it should.”<\/p>\n

\"RalfRalf Little as Neville Parker(Image: BBC)<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the conversation, Ralf spoke about his departure from Death in Paradise, where he portrayed Detective Neville Parker.<\/p>\n

“I’d completed five year,s and that made me the longest-serving detective on the show,” he revealed.<\/p>\n

“It felt like my character Neville’s story had been told. Me and the producers sat down, and we, kind of, all agreed.<\/p>\n

“Maybe we could have done another season, even maybe a couple, but you don’t want to keep doing something when it feels like it’s come to its natural conclusion.<\/p>\n

“We felt like his story had finished in a quite rounded, quite beautiful and poignant way, so it felt like the right time to leave.”<\/p>\n

Matt Tebbutt’s Saturday Kitchen is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Death in Paradise actor Ralf Little has revealed that he has an ’emergency button’ for his co-star Will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[243,6491,33100,96,38809,5078,56,54,55,38808],"class_list":{"0":"post-75681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-death-in-paradise","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ralf-little","13":"tag-saturday-kitchen","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-william-mellor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75681","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=75681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}