Catherine Tyldesley has confessed that she can go ‘two or three days’ without speaking to her children when she is away filming.
The 15 Days actress, 41, who shares her son Alfie, 10 and daughter Iris, three, with her husband Tom Pitfield, has explained on Behind The Brood podcast that the reason is because her career can be very fast paced.
Catherine, who found fame on Coronation Street. and Tom explained that it is typical when her career takes her abroad for long periods – such as The Good Ship Murder.
The drama was filmed on board a luxury cruise ship in Malta and during this period Tom was home with the children.
Catherine explained that she when she is in work she feels like she is ‘somebody else’ and is not her self.
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Catherine Tyldesley, 41, has confessed that she can go ‘two or three days’ without speaking to her children when she is away filming
The actress, who shares son Alfie, 10, and daughter Iris, three, with her husband Tom Pitfield, said on Behind The Brood podcast that the reason is because her career can be fast paced
The actress said: ‘When I’m on set, being in Malta as much as I have been, a year-and-a-half in total if you join it all up; I’m OK, because it’s very fast paced.
‘A little bit like it was on Corrie; my head is firmly in work mode. I’m somebody else, I’m not me.
‘But it’s when I get back to that hotel in the evening and it’s silent.. The bedtime routine, bath time, not being able sit on the bed and read Iris a book or chat to Alfie about how his day was.
‘I know there’s Zoom, which is wonderful, but it’s not the same.’
Tom said to his wife: ‘Some days we’ll go two or three days without Zooming and that might seem mental to some people.
‘The reality is, you’ll sometimes want to ring Iris and she’s too busy playing with her dollies.’
Catherine added: ‘We feel like we know when the time is right and I’m often on a different time zone to you.
‘When I’m filming on the cruise ship, that’s a nightmare because the WiFi is all over the place and we skip from tome zone, to time zone.
Catherine, who found fame on Coronation Street. and Tom explained that it is typical when here career takes her abroad for long periods – such as The Good Ship Murder
She said that she when she is in work she feels like she is ‘somebody else’ and is not her self
‘It is difficult and I always say to the other actors on set.. they’re like, ‘You alright, Cath? Are you missing your kids?’ And I’m like, ‘I just want to sniff them’.
‘I just have this… you know when your arms go a bit funny because you just want to squeeze them and sniff their sweaty little heads.’
Tom joked: ‘It’s funny, as I just want to launch them out of the window some days!’
Catherine played Eva Price in Coronation Street from 2011 to 2018 and the star gave birth to Alfie in 2015, she and Tom married in 2016 and they welcomed Iris in April 2022.