Until I Kill You’s Delia Balmer and new love David’s relationship in real life - and detail ITV left out

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Viewers of the tense ITV true crime drama Until I Kill You have seen that former nurse Delia Balmer, as played by Anna Maxwell Martin, managed to survive a near fatal attack by her former boyfriend John Sweeney (Shaun Evans), who was eventually found guilty of murdering two other women who he dismembered and dumped in canals.

Following her escape from Sweeney and recovery from her life altering injuries, Delia embarked on a relationship with a man named David, who is portrayed by Downton Abbey’s Kevin Doyle in the series.The couple broke up after “three or four years together” he says, and Kevin describes his character as “a very generous soul.” “He’s aware that he is offering much more to the relationship than he is getting back, but he understands the reasons why, so he gives Delia a lot of leeway.

I think he saw a wounded animal in Delia, and he felt that he could look after her and that in some way she could support him.They’re both people of a certain age whose lives haven’t necessarily gone in the ways they would have liked – he’s divorced, he’s got grown-up kids and he’s quite lonely.” While Kevin says he is not the type of actor who does a great deal of research when playing a real life person, he did learn that there was one aspect of David’s personality that was left out of the series. “There are aspects of David we diluted slightly, like the fact he was a very heavy smoker,” he says. “Delia found comfort in the stability that David offered and he did seem to offer something loving.

He was very generous with his time and his money, but nevertheless she just couldn’t fully commit to the relationship and they lasted three or four years together.” Kevin is sad that Delia and David were not able to make their.