Outnumbered star on returning: 'I cried of happiness'

A decennary connected from the extremity of the British sitcom, actors Tyger Drew-Honey, Daniel Roche and Ramona Marquez sermon increasing up connected and disconnected screen, applicable jokes and reviving their characters for the Outnumbered Christmas special.

When the kid stars of Outnumbered filmed their archetypal episode, they were each 10 years aged and under. Now, each successful their 20s, they're precise excited to instrumentality arsenic the boisterous Brockman siblings.

"When I recovered retired we were going to bash the Christmas special, I cried of happiness," says histrion Tyger Drew-Honey, who plays Jake alongside co-stars Daniel Roche (Ben) and Ramona Marquez (Karen).

Outnumbered, which ran from 2007 to 2014, follows mum Sue (played by Claire Skinner) and dada Pete (Hugh Dennis) navigating household beingness with their kids.

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The part-improvised drama won champion sitcom astatine the British Comedy Awards successful 2009 and a National Television Award for astir fashionable sitcom successful 2012.

In betwixt shooting scenes, the actors fondly callback April Fools' jokes with the crew, screaming "bloody murder" astatine their beloved on-set tutor and playing fell and question successful their trailers.

"You wouldn't deliberation determination were that galore places to fell but erstwhile Ramona was littler, I deliberation she'd been successful each cupboard successful 1 of those trailers," says Drew-Honey, present 28.

The amusement returned for a one-off Christmas peculiar successful 2016 - and it's present backmost this Boxing Day.

The caller occurrence sees Sue and Pete big Christmas astatine their downsized location for their grown-up children.

And determination are immoderate additions, including Jake's caller family: spouse Rani (Kerena Jagpal) and girl Zara (Aurora Skarli).

While the amusement won awards for comedy, the latest occurrence explores a much superior storyline.

As the parents interruption immoderate wellness quality to their grown-up kids, it's revealed that Pete has early-stage prostate cancer.

The storyline calls backmost to the 3rd bid of the show, successful which Pete has a crab scare.

The actors were excited to instrumentality to the amusement arsenic adults and reunite with their on-screen parents.

Drew-Honey says aft leaving the show, helium "had this arrogance. I thought, 'Oh, yeah, well, there's conscionable ever going to beryllium a large occupation coming each year.'"

Following Outnumbered, Drew-Honey went connected to prima successful drama Cuckoo and documentary bid Tyger Takes On. However, helium says immoderate years helium would lone person "two oregon three" acting jobs "months apart".

Returning arsenic an adult, helium explains: "It was conscionable truly bully for america each to beryllium determination arsenic nonrecreational adults, moving with our peers."

Roche, 25, says "there were evidently a mates of anxieties going into it arsenic an adult, you know, you're much benignant of self-conscious."

However, helium appreciated the "unique experience" of entering an aged situation "where astir everything other is mostly the aforesaid arsenic it utilized to be, but you're antithetic now."

And Roche was amended capable to subordinate to his older co-stars: "I was talking to Hugh astir politics, yet knowing astir it."

Marquez, 23, says it was absorbing returning to the acceptable arsenic an adult. Aged conscionable 5 erstwhile filming the pilot, she would person to instrumentality regular payment breaks.

However, present she explains she tin enactment and ticker others filming, adding "it astir made it much fun."

She besides starred successful the Oscar-winning movie The King's Speech and since filming the amusement she has graduated from the University of Manchester.

You tin ticker Outnumbered connected BBC One astatine 21:40 GMT connected Boxing Day and connected BBC iPlayer.