On a freezing November evening in the Cotswolds, Danny Dyer is calling on more than 30 years' experience as an actor to prepare himself to cope with the night of filming ahead. "You got to put them heat pads in your trotters," he says, gesturing towards his feet. "I've got two double ones for me toes," he continues, "and Long Johns obviously." We have been invited to the set of Rivals, the adaptation of Jilly Cooper's bonkbuster, which has generated exactly the kind of heat the cast and crew could do with tonight. The show's first season even won the International Emmy Award for best drama in the hours before we arrived. The location is Chavenage House, near Tetbury in Gloucestershire, where a bonfire scene is to be filmed for season two. In the series, the Elizabethan manor house is the residence of TV presenter Declan O'Hara, played by Aidan Turner. In an act of serendipity, he's lived here in a previous incarnation - this was also the home of Poldark, his breakthrough role. "I don't think anyone knew until my first day shooting here and then word got around and they wondered if they'd made a mistake," the actor laughs. "But actually, they've dressed it so differently I don't rec
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Fans of the Disney+ hit series Rivals will know this house as Bella Vista - home to Danny Dyer's character Freddie. But it's actually called Foxfield, and is in Lisvane, Cardiff rather than the fictional Cotswolds countryside town of…
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Fans of the Disney+ hit series Rivals will know this house as Bella Vista - home to Danny Dyer's character Freddie. But it's actually called Foxfield, and is in Lisvane, Cardiff rather than the fictional Cotswolds…
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Fans of the Disney+ hit series Rivals will know this house as Bella Vista - home to Danny Dyer's character Freddie. But it's actually called Foxfield, and is in Lisvane, Cardiff rather than the fictional Cotswolds countryside town of…
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