Treadwell-Collins revealed the adaptation of Rivals happened after he wrote Dame Jilly a “love letter” explaining how much he had loved her novels and how he would bring Rivals to life on TV.<\/p>\n
“I always thought they would make brilliant television as she was such a brilliant storyteller with brilliant creative characters,” he said.<\/p>\n
“All the way through my career I have been mocked for suggesting it, television producers would laugh at me.<\/p>\n
“Thank God they did because I kept it to myself for years.<\/p>\n
“We went to see her, she said, ‘You’ve got to write this, you’ve got to adapt this Dominic because you are a writer’.<\/p>\n
“I’ve written one show myself before, I wasn’t confident, I was thinking lots of other writers should write it.<\/p>\n
“Jilly’s made me a writer, that’s really, really special.<\/p>\n
“To bring that joy to Jilly Cooper is the proudest thing I’ve ever done, ever.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Treadwell-Collins revealed the adaptation of Rivals happened after he wrote Dame Jilly a “love letter” explaining how much…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808548","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=808548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}