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Rivals star Aidan Turner says he threw himself into racy sex scenes with co-star Victoria Smurfit - as he admits it's 'like doing a dance surrounded by 50 hairy men with cameras'


The Irish actor, 41, stars in the Disney+ series as journalist Declan O'Hara with Victoria, 50, playing his wife Maud.

Rivals star Aidan Turner revealed to The Sunday Times that he threw himself into his racy scenes with friend and co-star Victoria Smurfit It was a scene in Rivals that made viewers' blood run cold when Dame Jilly Cooper's dark-haired lothario Rupert Campbell Black put his hand up 19-year-old Taggie's skirt. The Mail's Jane Fryer gave the eight-part series five stars and revealed the show 'kicks off with so much sex and swearing and nudity and ridiculously brilliant, tongue-in-cheek fun' that viewers won't want to tear their eyes away.

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