Sunday People

CALL THE MIDWIFE’S TRIXIE IS BACK My baby’s been on set but not on TV... yet!

- By Janine Yaqoob TV EDITOR

CALL the Midwife star Helen George says it’s only a matter of time before her own baby makes her debut on the programme.

Helen, 34, hopes one-year-old Wren will bag a role on the show that made her mum and dad Jack Ashton household names.

The actress, back in the BBC drama after maternity leave, has already taken her daughter on the set in Chatham, Kent.

And she said being a mum had transforme­d her life on the show in which she plays party-loving nurse Trixie Franklin.

“I’m different with the babies,” said Helen.

“The midwife on set said, ‘God, I can tell you’re a mum now.’ I guess I’m a bit more caring. I’m a bit more motherly, I suppose.

Orphans

“I’m discoverin­g what it’s like to be a working mum. We do 12hour days so it’s hard.

“I did take Wren on set. I’m really excited that she’s going to see both of her parents working.

“She hasn’t been cast. I need to get on that.”

Helen, who met 35- year- old Jack, the show’s dashing vicar Tom Hereward, on the show in 2013, had to hide her baby bump under capes and coats while shooting her last scenes.

She returns in this year’s

Christmas Day special, which features stories of child refugees in the

1960s and kicks off the eighth series of the hit

Sunday night drama.

Trixie arrives back at the nursing convent in East London in 1964 after being in rehab in Italy for alcoholism.

There she meets formidable new Sister Mildred, played by Harry Potter star Miriam Margolyes.

Sister Mildred sparks Christmas joy – and chaos – by bringing four Chinese orphans f ound abandoned in Hong Kong. “Trixie

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