Brenda Blethyn says 'being apart from husband kept them together' during lockdown

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They’ve been together for four decades - but were forced to spend chunks of lockdown apart due to Brenda Blethyn’s filming schedule.

So, how did her husband Michael find it? “Lovely,” she quips. “They say absence makes the heart grow fonder - well, it’s true,” the Vera star insists. “Being apart seems to keep us together.” Brenda spent lockdown filming the 11th series of the ITV drama, which will start airing later this year. “It’s been lovely...

so he says!” the actress jokes. “No, we get on fine. “When I’m up in Newcastle filming Vera, I don’t see him for months on end.

We talk a couple of times a day, it might just be: ‘Hello, how are you doing?’ but we make sure it always happens and it just works.” The couple wed in 2010 following a