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Jason Watkins' McDonald and Dodds castmates honour tragic daughter, 2, with sweet tribute


Jason Watkins is back as DS Dodds in the new series of ITV drama McDonald and Dodds - and the actor has opened up about his co-stars' touching tribute to his late daughter

McDonald and Dodds star Jason Watkins has revealed that his castmates from the ITV show paid tribute to his late daughter Maude, who died of sepsis aged two, with a heart-warming gesture. The ITV1 show, which sees Tala Gouveia ’s ambitious DCI McDonald and Jason Watkins’ bumbling DS Dodds solve a different case in each two-hour episode, is returning for a fourth series. Claire Skinner regularly cracked up her co-stars as Chief Superintendent Ormond on the show It seems the pair have a similar relationship to their characters, as Jason interjected, joking, “Yes, you can tell me exactly how you feel and what I’ve done wrong!”

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