Silent Witness’ Emilia Fox isn’t easily fazed by the criminal cases that land on the Lyell Centre slab after spending two decades in Dr.
Nikki Alexander’s scrubs - but the BBC star admits that it’s a completely different story when disaster strikes in real life.
Emilia, 49, is back for the crime show’s 26th series as forensic pathologist Nikki and despite seeing all sorts of gruesome scenes, she’s “squeamish” when it comes to actual injuries. “If something bad happens at home and then I’m like, ‘What do I do?
I’m really good at this on TV and really bad at it in real life!’” she says. “[My husband] Jonathan dropped a pair of secateurs on his foot the other day and his whole shoe was swimming in blood,” she adds. “And my normal response when a disaster happens is to laugh really nervously - much to his chagrin.
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