Strictly's Sarah Hadland admits she had huge misconception about Miranda Hart

Sarah Hadland and her erstwhile Miranda co-star, the show's creator Miranda Hart, are steadfast friends nowadays but the Strictly contestant wasn't ever truthful convinced astir her aboriginal pal

The sitcom Miranda was a immense success, making stars retired of actresses Miranda Hart and Sarah Hadland - but the second had a astonishing sentiment of her co-star earlier they met.

Sarah, 53, is present competing connected Strictly Come Dancing with pro spouse Vito Coppola, with fans saying their magical foxtrot to Billie Eilish's Birds Of A Feather was undermarked past weekend.

The mates inactive managed to execute 27 points and histrion Sarah became affectional aft her performance, explaining she sings the opus astatine location with her young daughter.

Sarah and Vito are getting connected similar a location connected occurrence and she besides remains steadfast friends with her erstwhile co-star Miranda.

The women famously played champion pals Stevie and Miranda successful the much-loved BBC show, who perpetually got themselves into comic situations.

But the Strictly prima admits she thought they wouldn't get connected successful existent life, telling the Observer successful 2013: "I retrieve looking her up connected the net and thinking: 'We person thing successful common, you're posh'."

Sarah didn't be assemblage oregon play school. "I was told a gazillion times: 'You volition not beryllium an actress'," she said. She went onto bask large success, with 3 years connected cult drama sketch amusement That Mitchell and Webb Look.

"I was the lone idiosyncratic connected That Mitchell and Webb Look who hadn't been to Oxbridge," she said. "They were precise saccharine – conscionable occasionally I'd get a hint connected the cryptic crossword."

The W1A prima became steadfast friends with Miranda, 51 and aboriginal told The Sun: "I consciousness fortunate to person done a occupation that has fixed maine a bully person for life".

She was precocious reunited with the Call The Midwife prima connected the BBC's The One Show sofa, which saw Miranda stock the quality she had got tied the knot. 'I'm married, I got joined astatine 51 and it's conscionable truthful lovely!," said the comedian. 'It wasn't until I was 49 that I met my person.

'It's a small undercurrent successful the book," she added. "I'm not going to uncover however we met due to the fact that that's a small spot of a twist. He's my champion friend, we had the champion amusive and I'm conscionable thrilled to beryllium a young bride astatine 51."

Horrible Histories archetypal formed subordinate Sarah has antecedently spoken of the onscreen relationship of characters Miranda and Stevie. "That narration betwixt Stevie and Miranda is truly unsocial and peculiar – it was ever her [Miranda's] extremity to find a narration that reflected everything that was bully successful a pistillate friendship," she said.

"We've fixed them an alternate to each the cleanable women that they spot connected television, who look cleanable and bash everything perfectly. If you don't look similar a exemplary and you haven't got each the men crawling astatine your feet you're a disaster. We benignant of amusement that we get everything incorrect but we person a superb laugh."