Gabriel Book [Mark Gatiss] and your character Trottie are in a “lavender marriage” of convenience – he’s gay at a time when it was illegal. What do you make of their relationship?

Womack is a mum to Benjamin, 24, and Lili-Rose, 20, who she shares with her ex-husband Mark Womack. Her current partner, Oliver Farnworth, 42, plays John Sugden in the ITV soap Emmerdale.