I’m Derry surprised to be a hot priest on TV
Star Peter’s shock at sex symbol status
It’s a big show, people talk about it a lot & like it
DERRY Girls’ “hot priest” Peter Campion said he never planned to become a sex symbol in the show.
Having graced the screen in everything from Love/hate to Peaky Blinders, it’s the Co Offaly man’s role as ponytailed priest Fr Peter that fans can’t get enough of.
But playing down his popularity in the hit Channel 4 comedy, the star said admitted the sex symbol status was not something he had mapped out.
Looking back at when he first got the call about the part, the modest actor said: “He was just a priest at the time.”
Speaking in an interview with the
Irish Mirror as they promoted season three of the sitcom, his co-star Ian Mcelhinney, best known and loved by fans of the show as Granda Joe, cheekily chimed in, “He made him sexy”, with a laugh.
And Peter admits that it has gone on to garner a lot of attention on the streets.
He said: “I don’t get shouted at but
PETER CAMPION people do talk to me, they bring it up in conversation.
The actor, who is also the familiar voice behind RTE dating show First Dates Ireland, as the show’s narrator said he also gets stopped by fans wanting him to recite something from the show.
Peter said “They want me to do some lines from it. But what I have to say is, when I do those voiceovers, I speak very close to the mic so my voice sounds deeper.
“And that’s why I don’t sound like that on Derry Girls. It’s a big show, people talk about it a lot and they really like it.”
Meanwhile, at home, the actor, who shares two children with his wife, Red Rock star Valerie O’connor, said work also naturally slips into daily conversations too.
He added: “Yes, I think we talk about it without knowing that we talk about it.
“We have got two beautiful kids. “And it is probably part of the conversation where it is just there but we are not really aware of it.”