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Jolly sooper! How Jilly Cooper landed roles in raunchy series Rivals for her young granddaughters
Producers of the Disney+ show managed to find the perfect parts for Dame Jilly's teenage granddaughters - casting them as David Tennant's on-screen daughters.
A Rivals insider told The Mail on Sunday: 'As executive producer, Dame Jilly was on set a lot, but you could tell her favourite day was when her granddaughters appeared as David's children. The Doctor Who star embraces Scarlett and Sienna and they turn to face the camera as he kisses them on the head before they run out of shot again as he nonchalantly thwacks a croquet ball. Dame Jilly made her own surprise cameo in the fifth episode when viewers see writer Lizzie Vereker, played by Katherine Parkinson, pay a visit to her book agent in London.
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