Who did up that dress, Demelza?
IT was the love scene fans of BBC1’s Poldark had been waiting for.
As Demelza suggestively asked Ross to help unfasten her dress, millions of viewers were transfixed. Some, however, had a burning question: How had she squeezed into the gown in the first place – without assistance?
After the strong-willed servant, played by Eleanor Tomlinson, 22, spent the night with Aidan Turner’s Poldark, one tweeted: ‘Enjoying Poldark great chemistry between Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson – but how did Demelza get the dress done up?!’
Another added: ‘ Okay Demelza I get it. You need help getting your dress off *wink wink* but how exactly did you do it up in the first place?’ A third joked: ‘As a costume fairy, I have to ask, if she needed help getting out of the dress... WHO GOT HER INTO THE DRESS.’
With no sense of time passing, other viewers expressed puzzlement at how quickly the story was progressing, with Demelza marrying Poldark just minutes after they first kissed on screen. Also, Elizabeth, the other object of Poldark’s affections, gave birth just one episode after announcing she was pregnant.
Despite these concerns the majority of the audience seem enthralled by the Cornwall-set adventure, based on the novels by Winston Graham. Just as the original series turned Robin Ellis into a sex symbol, Turner, 31, is fast becoming the nation’s new heartthrob. Sunday’s episode attracted 6.2million viewers.
A spokesman for the Poldark production team said: ‘Of course Demelza could have got the dress off by herself!!! But why the hell would she want to?’