'IT'S SEXY WATCHING YOUR WIFE BE GOOD AT HER THING'

POWER COUPLE LAURA WHITMORE AND IAIN STIRLING ON JOINING FORCES FOR THE NEW SERIES OF HIS SITCOM

After working together on Love Island and their true life crime podcast Partners In Crime, married couple Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling are mixing business with pleasure again as they team up for another project.

The loved-up pair – who have one-year-old daughter Stevie together – are starring alongside each other in the second series of Iain’s semi-autobiographical TV show Buffering. He created the sitcom – launched in 2021 – with comedian pal Steve Bugeja.

In the show, Love Island narrator Iain, who is 34 this week, plays a fictional version of himself as he navigates the highs and lows of life as a young adult. And, now, Laura has joined the cast as tough TV exec Vic.

Talking about casting Laura, Iain reveals, “We wrote this character as a ball-buster. And then Steve said, ‘I wonder if Laura would be up for this.’ I never asked Laura – we sent the script to her agent. Obviously, we are married and we are in a house together, she knew it was happening. But it got sent to her agent, so it wasn’t done over cornflakes in the morning!

“We’ve no time, we’ve got nappies to change and bottles to fill! There’s no time for contract discussions. Once we knew she was doing it, we then got to tweak the script and that’s when the little thing of her finding [the character] Iain repulsive was added in. It’s quite nice because it adds a little something.”