‘Do miss each other’ Pauline Collins on being ‘separated’ from husband John Alderton | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV

The actress recalled filming Paradise Road in 1997, with John starting on a stage play “on exactly the same day”.

She said: “It meant we couldn’t visit each other, but it also meant we had something to tell each other.”

Adding to her secrets to a happy marriage, the star penned: “You need constant stimulus to keep a marriage alive. If you don’t have anything new to tell each other, or fresh points of view, you get stale.

“I’ve spent plenty of time with my husband, because we’ve worked together on five television series and four West End plays, but spaces are good in a marriage and we’ve had a lot of those.

We’re like two trees side by side. We’ve grown at the same pace.”