Pooldark! The new TV hunks take a dip
IT used to be all about Aidan Turner’s chiselled torso, topless scything and grafting down the tin mine.
But Poldark will be given a run for his money tomorrow night when the show’s two new heart-throbs frolic in the sea.
Young actors Harry Richardson and Tom York will whip off their shirts and breeches for the first time in the series to take a rather bracing dip in the Cornish sea.
However, while Turner has always maintained his manly grizzled look, young guns Richardson and York, both 24, show off smooth, hairless torsos.
And although the pair’s topless scene might leave viewers hot under the collar on Sunday evening, there seems to have been nothing warming about the water they were swimming in. Both men, who play Demelza’s brothers Drake and Sam Carne, struggled to disguise their shock at the chilly temperature and appeared to be wincing.
Later in the episode, Australian actor Richardson, who is best known for ITV drama Doctor Thorne, will set pulses racing once again with another watery topless scene – when he is seen washing himself while wearing only trousers.
The hunky pair will be providing all the topless thrills for the third series, as Turner, 33, said that he would only be shown ‘topless sleeping’. The real Poldarks – Pages 44-45