I Had Girlfriends, But Settling

The Press Mainly Want To Destroy A Program By Revealing What's Coming Up. For Some Reason, Soaps Like Doing That.

Julian Fellowes Doesn't Come To The Set, Except Maybe Once Every Six Weeks, For Whatever Reason. He's Not A Producer, In That Sense. But If You Write Him A One-line Question, He'll Write You A Three-page Answer.

A Typical Christmas Is Me Shucking Oysters. I Love Them And I Always Get Them In At Christmas.

We Were All Expecting To Finish [downton Abbey] After Series 1, Actually. And Then, It Got Extended To Series 3, And That's When Two Of Our Much Loved And Much Missed Friends Left. And Then, It Was Going To Be Done With Series 5, But Julian Fellowes Said, "i'd Like To Do One More." So It's Been A Series Of Extensions, Rather Than Wondering How Much Longer We Can Go On For.

I Had Girlfriends, But Settling Down Was The Last Thing On My Mind.