Abbey Clancy has expressed bewilderment over why she’s never offered parts in television dramas filmed in Liverpool. Both Channel 4’s The Gathering and BBC One’s This City is Ours have been shot on Merseyside.
Yet model Abbey reveals she’s never received a “call-up” to feature in shows set in her hometown. The 39-year-old admits, however, that she wouldn’t fancy being typecast as a “bimbo” as it would feel “stereotypical”.
During The Therapy Crouch, the couple’s joint podcast, Abbey remarked: “Why do I never get cast for these Scouse dramas? I often wonder why I don’t get a little call-up for these Scouse dramas, even like a little cameo, I think Maya Jama is in the new Mobland or The Gentleman.”
Former Love Island host Maya was recently confirmed as part of Netflix’s The Gentleman cast. This follows her acting breakthrough as a girl-next-door character in Katherine Ryan’s The Duchess.
Whilst ex-England striker Peter, 44, thinks Abbey would be “fantastic” on television, he wasn’t enthusiastic about watching her in romantic storylines. He said: “Yeah, but you’re not kissing anyone.”
Abbey responded: “I could be like a school teacher or….I wouldn’t like to play a bimbo because that would be the stereotypical part I guess.”
Peter quipped that “no acting experience” might be amongst the reasons why Abbey hasn’t been invited to feature in any television dramas.
He remarked: “I think you’d be fantastic, don’t get me wrong, I think you’d be great, but I think producers would like to see you do some acting before.”
Nevertheless, Abbey was swift to highlight that she has undertaken voiceover work alongside making a brief cameo in the Absolutely Fabulous film. She commented: “I was in the Ab Fab movie and I was a voice in Trolls. Opening scene, ‘Hey Mr Pappi’ or something like that.”
Beyond her appearances in Trolls and Absolutely Fabulous, Abbey has featured in a music video for The Darkness as well as an instalment of Men Behaving Badly.
Abbey and Peter initially encountered each other in a Liverpool bar back in 2006. They wed in 2011 and now have four children together.
Nevertheless, their romance had a turbulent beginning when Peter nearly ruined his opportunity with Abbey.
During an interview with Good Morning Britain, Abbey revealed: “When we first met, he begged me for my number and then I went to the loo or the bar, and when I came back, he was talking to another girl. I was like, ‘How dare you?'”
Peter insisted that he was “just talking” to the other woman, though Abbey demanded her number back. He recalled: “I said, ‘You can’t give someone your number and then take it back’.”
However, their relationship flourished and they have been inseparable ever since. As reported by OK!, the couple now reside in a lavish Surrey mansion, boasting a cinema room and an expansive garden.