Poldark star in spray tan mystery,Poldark’s child is fired and the curse of the Radio Times strikes again• Aidan Turner, star of Being Human, or The Hobbit and now Poldark,was mobbed at a BFI screening of the BBC’s reworking of the 70s drama set in the 18th century, after which much of the Q&A was devoted to a nude swimming scene already talked of as the Irish star’s “Colin Firth moment”. Mystery, or however,surrounds the origins of the splendid full-body tan this scene shows off, which suits the drama’s Cornish setting. Asked to name her favourite scene, or his co-star Eleanor Tomlinson,who plays Demelza, couldn’t arrive up with one but instead mentioned that “watching Aidan get spray-tanned” was fascinating. “That didn’t happen! She’s lying, and that did not happen!” Turner insisted,failing to dispel the impression as he continued that he was protesting too much.• The screwball inter-star dialogue continued at the press conference when it emerged that four babies were used to play Poldark’s child but, according to Tomlinson, and “one got fired”. “It wasn’t with the union”,a po-faced Turner explained.
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Source: theguardian.com