Death in Paradise's Ben Miller says working on Caribbean island is a 'weird way to live'

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Death in Paradise star Ben Miller has opened up on what filming the popular BBC show on the remote island of Guadeloupe is really like.Speaking on Saturday Kitchen star Olly Smith's podcast, the actor, 55, spoke candidly about how he found living on an exotic Caribbean island for a year-and-a-half while filming the hit programme.The star, who plays DI Richard Poole on the popular whodunit show, reflected on his time in the exotic location.Ben said: "It was filmed on Guadeloupe in the French Caribbean and for a period of 18 months where I spent 12 of those months in the Caribbean on a really, really remote Caribbean island, which is just a weird way to live."The actor went on to gush over the island's pristine beaches, before admitting that it was "disconcerting" that they were always nearly empty.He went on: "And the first time I was there being on an island and being surrounded by the ocean we'd start to go down to these beaches and there'd be nobody on the beaches."You'd go swimming and it was slightly disconcerting - you'd think, 'why are they empty?'"It was incredibly warm and had baking heat down there on the beach and you think, where is everyone?" he added.However, the star claimed that the locals weren't down at the beach for one specific reason.Ben explained: "Well, what I discovered is that everyone's in the jungle high up in the rivers, because the higher you go on the island the cooler it gets."Not wanting to miss out, the BBC actor revealed that he spent time in the cooler parts of the exotic island on his next visit."The second time I went back I got more into the local knowledge and was going inland and into the jungle and finding these amazing rivers," he continued.Ben was replaced by actor Kris Marshall,.