Fair City’s Jenny Kavanagh trades Cote d’Azur for drama of Carrigstown

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Actress Jenny Kavanagh has swapped the sun, sea and superyachts of the French Riviera for the mean streets of Carrigstown. She will return to our screen tonight as her character, Cleo Collins, makes a comeback on Fair City after more than a decade.

Cleo left Carrigstown over 10 years ago to care for her dying mother in Mullingar. But real life has been more glamorous for Ms Kavanagh, who has spent six years living the dream as she worked from home near Cannes in France.

However, the Clondalkin native says it has not all been plain sailing. ‘A lot of people would see a life in the south of France and understandably go, “Oh my God, that girl’s living it up!”’ she told the Irish Mail on Sunday. ‘But it’s also hard, in the same way as living in