When S Club 7 split up in 2003, many thought that would be the end of the tween sensations.

But one member of the pop band has come back bigger and better than before, although this time she has reinvented herself as an actress.

When Hannah Spearritt, the impishly pretty one from S Club, signed up to star as zoologist Abby Maitland in ITV1′s Saturday sci-fi smash hit Primeval, she didn’t realise it would be such a success, or that she’d bag herself a new bloke in the process. The boyfriend in question is her co-star, Andrew-Lee Potts, who plays her will-they-won’t-they? love interest, Connor, in the show.

So, how do the lovebirds cope, living and working together?

“Working together 24-7 is always going to be a rollercoaster I suppose, but we’re good because any problems we have, we have a chat about and work through,” says Hannah.

“It was a journey,” adds Andrew. “The last thing you want when you’re doing stuff wrong at work is for your missus to be watching it, so there was all that mixed in.

“Also, as an actor I’m used to looking after myself, even though it sounds selfish,” he continues. “But with Connor and Abby, because it was me and Hannah, it meant so much more and we so wanted to get it right. There were a lot of emotions on the set for us. If we do it again we’re looking forward to it because we went through that whole journey and we learned quite a lot about each other.”

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