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There were times when she questioned her career choice.

She is the middle child between the older Ella Edmondson and younger Freya Edmondson. Now, with a big Disney

I hate my husband's clothes. My husband [she married BBC journalist Sam Francis last year] met them for the first time in Italy, and when we got there, they’d already had a meal and a couple of glasses of wine and were being extremely raucous, but he handled it very well.’.

‘Comparisons are quite hard,’ admits Edmondson, ‘not just from other people but from myself.

‘I think I’m the one who’s really been his failure in that department,’ she says.

The 31-year-old actor is their middle daughter, and the only one to settle on a career in comedy. ‘She’s a very different kind of person, and Saffy’s dynamic with her mother is very different from ours… I’m good at laughing at her and she’s good at laughing at me.’ Saunders suggests that Edmondson may actually have found her way into the writing of her own Ab Fab character, Edina, when she and her sisters were toddlers as ‘Edina was a toddler’. Her mother remembers her being ‘very self-contained’ as a child. My husband [she married BBC journalist Sam Francis last year] met them for the first time in Italy, and when we got there, they’d already had a meal and a couple of glasses of wine and were being extremely raucous, but he handled it very well.’.

Her TV debut was in the sitcom The Wright Way. She visited the set of Ab Fab, too – ‘It felt like going to a playground, and Jimmy Krankie was always there.’ (The children’s TV entertainer Janette Tough, who played the cheeky schoolboy, appeared on the show. career, actor Beattie Edmondson tells us how she survived the

‘I imagined he’d fall in love with me and I’d have to take him home, but no, he was uninterested in my affections. There were times when she questioned her career choice. ‘I felt, “Oh no, I’m stuck up here and I should be down there,” but she kept going, “It’s fine, I’m going to be fine,” and obviously she was. Saunders plays her mum in Josh, and Edmondson appeared on French and Saunders as a child. With her blue eyes and blonde hair, she bears a strong family resemblance to her parents, Jennifer Saunders and Adrian Edmondson. ‘It was nerve-racking,’ she says, ‘but I just didn’t let myself overthink it because I would have had a breakdown.