BBC Beyond Paradise star lets slip bombshell ‘confession’ fans won’t expect
One of the stars of the BBC crime series revealed something surprising as he appeared on BBC Breakfast
Jamie Bamber made a confession as he appeared on BBC Breakfast(Image: BBC screengrab)
Beyond Paradise star Jamie Bamber made a surprising confession as he appeared on BBC Breakfast.
The actor – who plays Archie Hughes – was on the show to discuss the much-loved crime series and left hosts Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt looking stunned when he admitted that he only reads his bit of the scripts.
Jamie’s co-star Zahra Ahmadi was on the show with him and Naga asked whether they guessed the outcome of the programme’s mysteries when they read the scripts.
“So I’ve got a confession,” said Jamie, as Zahra urged: “Oh, no, don’t say it!”
But he went on: “I’ve got a confession.”
“Do you only read your bits?” asked Naga, looking surprised.
“Well, but Archie doesn’t get involved in the crime,” he replied, as Naga joked: “That is not the attitude!”
Jamie Bamber admitted he only reads his part of the scripts(Image: BBC screengrab)
Jamie went on: “So what I do, exactly to your point, I like to watch it and see if I can guess without knowing, having cheated and read the script in advance. That’s my excuse.”
Gesturing at Zahra, who plays Archie’s love interest Detective Sergeant Esther Williams, the actor explained: “All I am trying to do is win her affection. That’s my challenge. I read those bits and I work out how that’s going to go. And then the crime thing, I leave.”
Referring to the fact that Jamie previously joked he only had to do a few scenes an episode, Naga quipped: “Do you think if you read the whole script, you’d get more than one or two scenes every episode? I’m just kind of saying!”
Zahra also opened up about the enduring appeal of the crime series, which is a spin-off of Death in Paradise.
“I just think there’s an ease with that format that you can kind of slot into on a weekly basis,” she said. “And I think the tone of the show also has such a broad appeal. I think you can watch it with multi-generations and there’ll be no sort of awkward moments.”
Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty hosted BBC Breakfast(Image: BBC screengrab)
Jamie added: “I think it’s genius because there’s not often a murder committed. There’s not often a body, actually. And when there is a body, it’s a more nuanced chain of events that’s led to this unfortunate incident. And it’s not normally a mutilated female body in the woods.
“It’s actually normally crimes where people with big hearts have tried to correct wrongs and done it the wrong way, and they’ve collapsed over themselves. And it looks like something terribly nefarious has happened.”
