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Cold Feet star Leanne Best on why Tina is a dream role and making her famous uncle proud...

- Victoria Wilson

NEW DRAMA

Cold Feet Friday / ITV / 9.00PM

When TV Times calls Cold Feet star Leanne Best, things get off to an amusing start.

‘I thought you might be a call centre, so I was gonna pick up the phone and politely ask you to stop phoning,’ she jokes.

Liverpool-born Leanne, 37, made her debut in the ITV drama last series as likeable Tina Reynolds, landlady to Adam (James Nesbitt).

As the pair became an item, Leanne was thrilled to be asked back as a series regular. ‘It’s lovely the audience thought there was mileage for Tina and Adam,’ she says.

However, now they’ve settled in together, Leanne tells us things are about to get complicated...