‘It upsets me’ says Sir David Jason has he makes shock admission about Only Fools and Horses legacy

SIR David Jason has revealed his Only Fools and Horses bequest has near him 'upset' arsenic helium reflects connected his career.

The beloved histrion is champion known by fans for his portrayal arsenic Del Boy Trotter successful the BBC sitcom.

He played the relation for 7 series, but has besides starred successful different hits specified arsenic Open All Hours, Danger Mouse and A Touch of Frost.

But Sir David, 84, has described Del Boy's quality arsenic a 'ghost' that continues to enactment with him.

He said: "That Derek Trotter thing, who's similar a spot of a shade that comes on down maine similar A Christmas Carol.

"'Haunted' is possibly excessively [strong], no. He's with maine each the time, meaning whether we telephone it haunted, I bash accidental that he's connected my backmost each the time, due to the fact that wherever I go, radical recognise maine arsenic the quality and you're ever getting radical saying 'Lovely jubbly!' and each of that.

"Which lone hangs maine back, lone upsets maine slightly, due to the fact that that seems to beryllium the lone happening that radical retrieve maine for."

Sir David continued to BBC Breakfast: "I'm delighted successful 1 mode that it's reached truthful galore radical and they've enjoyed what I've done with the character, but I've done truthful galore different things that everyone seems to person forgotten about, and it's lone [as if] I've ever played Derek Trotter."

Meanwhile, the acting fable precocious called connected Beeb bosses to bring backmost a classical sitcom.

He revealed helium wants to revisit Still Open All Hours truthful helium could “tie up” escaped ends.

Sir David explained: “Roy Clarke who was the archetypal writer of Still Open All Hours and Open each hours, by the way, had already half-written oregon three-quarters-written the full bid for the past bid due to the fact that it’s the 1 wherever Granville and Mavis - wavy Mavi - they get joined and each of the different characters implicit their storylines.

The bid would beryllium the eventual payoff to long-time fans of the Open All Hours franchise, which began backmost successful 1976.

The archetypal bid ended successful 1985, but returned successful the signifier of sequel bid Still Open All Hours successful 2013. Six bid of the amusement aired connected the BBC earlier it was shelved. 

Speaking to Jon Kay, David added: “Because a batch of storylines were near a spot open. It was cancelled originally, arsenic you said, due to the fact that of Covid, and they thought this would truly beryllium beauteous to upwind it each up."