The bad news: You won’t see Poldark like this again
The good... his 3 hot new co-stars will ALL go topless!
THE sight of Captain Ross’s toned torso made compulsive Sunday viewing for female fans of Poldark.
Unfortunately for them, actor Aidan Turner has decided to keep his rippling six-pack under wraps for the third series.
The good news, however, is that there are three other male characters who are planning to mimic the likes of Turner’s head-turning scything scene when the show returns to the BBC next month.
And judging by the photographs here, viewers will not be disappointed.
Model Josh Whitehouse, 27, will play aristocratic Hugh Armitage in the new series – and has already had plenty of practice baring his enviable physique in British fashion house Burberry’s 2016 Mr Burberry fragrance campaign.
As an actor, he has starred in the British movie Alleycats with his Poldark co-star Eleanor Tomlinson and in Northern Soul alongside Steve Coogan. Like Turner, Whitehouse also has two tattoos – on his upper body – that had to be covered with make-up for filming.
The cast will also be joined by Tom York, 24, who will play one of Demelza’s dishy brothers, Sam.
Tom revealed an impressive sixpack in the ITV series Endeavour, and is also known for playing Leo in BBC drama Death In Paradise.
Meanwhile, rising star Harry Richardson, who plays Demelza’s other brother, Drake, in the new series, is preparing to expose his attributes for the first time.
According to sources on the show, he is ‘very much ready for the attention’ and will engage in a Romeo and Juliet-style romance with new character Morwenna, played by Ellise Chappell.
Viewers will recognise the 24-year-old Australian from his role as Frank Gresham in Julian Fellowes’s adaptation of Anthony Trollope’s Doctor Thorne, screened on ITV last year.
Sources on the show told The Mail on Sunday: ‘This series definitely provides the most competition for Aidan Turner with these three rising stars.
‘It was a rather daunting experience when they joined the cast as they have incredibly big shoes to fill.
‘But we are fully confident that all are utterly ready for it.’
Last week, Irishman Turner, 33, confessed he would no longer be stripping off on camera. ‘I think the clothes stay on this year,’ he said.
‘There will be no more scything for me, but instead the other three.’
‘They have incredibly big shoes to fill’