Holby City's Lisa Faulkner's 'so sad' BBC show is ending after meeting 'best friends'

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BBC One prepares to air the last ever episode of Holby City having been on telly screens since 1999.The actress appeared as Pre-Registration House Nurse Victoria Merrick in the first episode way back in 1999, before becoming a surgeon and later left in series three, episode 30 back in 2001.Her character struggled to cope with the high pressure of being in surgery and also struggled to live up to her dad's expectations as he was a well-known surgeon.Despite meeting some of her closest friends on the show and having the time of her life, she requested that her character had a "gruesome death", a decision she says she later regrets.Speaking exclusively to the Daily Star from the Ideal Home Show, she said: "I can't believe they've stopped it, I'm really sad."I met my two best friends on it, we were there on the first day of filming and what an amazing, amazing job it was, it was just so fantastic."To be there at the beginning and to meet my two best mates, I have very fond memories of Holby City and I'm very sad it's over."She went on to add: "I think I was doing it 20 something years ago or something, it's really scary, it was a completely different thing back then, I think it was a real household for years."There's just been so many great people."The mum-of-one continued: "I did the first three series of it, so it was very different – when we first started, we had huge viewing figures, everyone loved it, we were very lucky with the people we worked with."We didn't know it was ever going to last for over 20 years but it's been a lovely show to be a part of."I worked with George Irving who played my dad and he's such a fantastic actor and then Siobhan Redmond, she became my boss when they opened the children's unit."We used.