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Poldark returns and he still can’t afford a shirt...

- BY NICOLA METHVEN TV Editor nicola.methven@mirror.co.uk VOICE OF THE MIRROR: PAGE 8

AIDAN Turner will set pulses racing again as the new series of Poldark sees him emerging from the surf in just his breeches.

The bare-chested shot echoes the classic moment from the first series when the strapping star went wild with a scythe. Speaking of his latest exposure, actor Aidan, 34, said: “It was pretty cold. It was September and it wasn’t pleasant.” Asked if Ross Poldark was once again being “objectifie­d”, executive producer Karen Thrussell said: “In the novels he swims quite a lot and doesn’t wear anything. We’ve been very truthful to the books and been quite modest.” Aidan said he hit the gym before the series. “I have to keep relatively fit just to fit into the costumes.” Asked if he minded all the attention his role attracts, he replied: “I don’t at all. Go for it.”

The hit show, which starts on June 10, will be the fourth series of the BBC drama, based on Winston Graham’s books.

A fifth has been commission­ed for next year but Aidan has said he thinks it will be the “last one” for the foreseeabl­e future.

“It has been big for us all but things naturally do end,” he said last week.

Set in 1796, the fourth series will feature Poldark risking everything as he tries to defend Cornwall from George Warleggan (Jack Farthing), while Ross’s wife Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) finds her loyalties torn.

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HUNK Aidan Turner as TV’s Poldark
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WIFE Demelza finds her loyalties torn in new series
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SCYTHE In 2015

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