Ade Edmondson: I don’t think Jennifer Saunders and I would work together again
Life could have been very different for Ade Edmondson. The actor and comedian auditioned to be Gail Tilsley’s boyfriend on Coronation Street when he was just out of university, and if he’d landed the part, The Comic Strip may not have been formed or The Young Ones realised. He might not even have met his wife, Jennifer Saunders. Nearly 50 years later, and for the first time in his career at the age of 69, Edmondson’s finally been given the chance to play a love interest in the second series of Bergerac. He’s playing Nigel, the partner of Zoë Wanamaker’s character, Charlie Hungerford (Bergerac’s mother-in-law in the revamped version; the father-in-law in the 1980s original series with John Nettles). The experience has given him more empathy for his single friends. Edmondson and Jennifer Saunders have been married since 1985 – David Fisher/Shutterstock “I’ve always played stupid, mean or undatable characters, so playing a love interest is another kind of excitement,” Edmondson smiles when we chat in the library of a London hotel. “I finally got …
