WHAT THEIR MUM TOLD Guess who is going to be your father? Del Boy!

Once again the show is about to make us smile during troubled times because the Larkin clan are due to return later this year in a reboot with The Chase host Bradley Walsh, 59, playing Pop.

Kitty and Chrissie, who went to school in Horsmonden, Kent, were just ten when they became the best-known twins in Britain.

Their nurse mum Eileen answered an ad in their local paper looking for “dark-haired Kentish twins”. Kitty, now 40, chuckles: ‘We were having dinner when Mum took a call saying they wanted us.

“When she put the phone down and said ‘Guess who’s going to be your dad? Del Boy!’, we all screamed with excitement and fell on the floor.

“David was then the biggest star in the UK and we were going to meet and work with him. That was really exciting.”

The twins were initially nervous on set but relaxed when they found it was free of showbiz egos. They followed strict instructions to have fun and eat ice cream.

Chrissie said: “They just wanted kids to run around and be part of a family, which we had done a lot of. You can see from some of it that we were not trained actors.

“On our first day we sat on the Larkins’ truck and they gave us an ice cream and were like ‘Wow, this is brilliant!’ They had to keep redoing takes and we ended up having so much ice cream.

“I was thinking, ‘People get paid for this’. I’m sure we were nervous, but we felt really looked-after and cherished. The cast and crew were brilliant. No one saw us as an annoyance.”

They still have fond memories of Jason, 80, as a down-toearth joker who guided them in their first weeks on set. Kitty said: “At the first read-through a big car came past and honked at us, and it was David Jason.

“We were dancing across the road in excitement, and he almost ran us over! It was all exciting and bizarre, and a nice break from the norm. David would joke and mess around on set, but when it was time for a take he was absolutely on it.”

Their on-screen sister, Catherine, had not yet had her big break, but Chrissie recognised she had what it took to be a Hollywood A-lister.

Chrissie said: “Catherine definitely had star quality – even then we could tell.

“She was mesmerising to people around her.

“One day we were all sat outside in

the sun, and we had a Smash Hits magazine with a poster of her on the back because she had a single in the charts.

“I remember us sitting with her going ‘Oh my God, you’re famous, you’re in a magazine!’ and she was really modest about it.

“Although it was many years ago, I still think about Catherine. It came out a few years ago that she was suffering from depression, and I really felt for her.

“What she, David and Pam have gone on to do is amazing.”

Darling Buds topped UK TV ratings but didn’t make the twins rich. According to Chrissie their wages were little more than “the