Call the Midwife’s Helen George left mortified by awkward moment with fan while filming series 13 of hit BBC show
CALL the Midwife’s Helen George was left mortified after an exchange with a fan while filming the new series.
The actress, 39, will reprise her role as beloved nurse Trixie when the BBC medical period drama returns in the New Year.
Filming is still underway with the cast shooting brand new episodes on location at the Historic Dockyard in Kent.
It’s also the same spot where the official show tours take place for viewers to experience the show.
However, it led to an awkward moment as Helen George was mistaken for a tour guide by a fan.
Explaining the mortifying exchange, the star told Claudia Winkleman: “This week I was mistaken for a Trixie lookalike impersonator tour guide at the Chatham museum, and asked for directions to the toilet!
“I obliged, as I knew where they were!”
But Helen didn’t reveal her true identity to the fan and revealed she often pretends to be a guide so she’s not heckled.
She explained: “Sometimes if I’m down there and sort of not in the mood, if someone says ‘Are you Trixie from Call the Midwife?’, I say ‘No, I’m a tour guide’. It works both ways!”
Meanwhile, Call the Midwife was recently blasted for its ‘outdated and inaccurate’ childbirth scenes.
A team of medical professors and scientists from King’s College London and the University of Liverpool examined 87 births shown in 48 episodes of three popular UK fictional and reality TV shows, including BBC’s Call The Midwife, This Is Going To Hurt and Channel 4‘s One Born Every Minute.
They discovered that most birth scenes showed modern updates to labour care, in line with guidelines by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
It led to show bosses issuing a statement, defending their writing.
They said: “Call The Midwife is a drama, not a documentary, and is set half a century ago.
“It is highly accurate to the period it depicts and shows how childbirth has changed radically over the years.”