Island Life Magazine Ltd December 2006/January 2007 | Page 39

FEATURE
I had always wondered when
watching Heartbeat that surely a
woman cannot have teeth like that.
Normally you can tell straight away
that they are false, but her teeth did
look real both in real life and on TV.
We’ll come back to this later....
The day was coming to an end,
they were filming the last scene
and the weather was constantly
changing, one minute cloud, one
minute sunshine, this was the
biggest problem that day because
you cannot have a scene where
one minute its cloudy and the next
bright sunshine, so in the end they
were estimating how long the next
cloud would take to pass over.
By this time I could see that
everyone was getting tired and cold.
Then at last the Director shouted
out “OK, that’s a wrap, well done,
thank you very much everyone.”
Well, talk about a vanishing act,
I have never seen a place clear so
quickly. In a matter of minutes, the
set was deserted, and it was as if
they were never there.

The Aidensfield Arms is mainly
used for external shots.

As Gwen
finished her scene her hand went
to her mouth and out came those
horrible teeth. She told make-up that
the teeth have been giving her some
pain so she wanted to get them out

as soon as possible - and yes, there
was a perfect set of sparkling white
teeth hidden beneath.
When we arrived back to the
caravan I waited in the car whilst
Vernon Scripps transformed himself

back into Geoffrey Hughes. Geoff
and the others had to be in Leeds
that night because they had filming
for the following week in the
studios, which are based in a disused
mill on the outskirts of Leeds.

Geoff and David practice
their lines before a take.

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