Overview

• Nicholas Ralph and Rachel Shenton said Alf Wight’s children, Jim and Rosie, were unexpectedly on set for the season three wedding scene.
• The actors said they were not told about the visit until the day of filming.
• Shenton recounted that Rosie became tearful while watching her parents’ on-screen counterparts exchange vows.
• Rosie Page told Masterpiece that the real wedding at Thirsk Church had only five attendees, including Donald Sinclair as best man and Fred Rymer giving her mother away.
• The Channel 5 series, based on Alf Wight’s books, has been on air since 2020 and is now in its sixth series, with a previously filmed Yorkshire Vet behind-the-scenes special airing tonight.