Miranda Hart’s fans claimed she was just like her beloved sitcom character after leaving them in hysterics following a kayaking mishap on Saturday.
The comedian, 52, who wrote and starred in the comedy Miranda from 2009-2015, appeared to be enjoying a break in the countryside with husband Richard Fairs, 60, whom she wed in secret in July 2024.
Her partner filmed the actress’ slapstick attempts to climb out of the canoe before Miranda finally fell into the water with a splash.
Offering his advice, he said: ‘Now push with your arms, now keep your centre of gravity over the boat’.
Miranda, who wore a wetsuit and shades on her head, was totally flummoxed by his suggestions as the kayak perilously shook from side to side.
‘I can’t work it out’ she admitted before attempting to ungraciously ‘straddle’ the vessel, which only left the pair in fits of giggles.
Miranda Hart’s fans claimed she was just like her beloved sitcom character after leaving them in hysterics following a kayaking mishap on Saturday
The comedian appeared to be enjoying a break in the countryside with husband Richard Fairs, 60, whom she wed in secret in July 2024 , as he filmed her attempts to climb out of the canoe
Miranda wrote and starred in the comedy Miranda from 2009-2015 (pictured)
Miranda’s attempts continued before she eventually fell into the water as fans raced to the comments, with one claiming it was like watching a new episode of her show.
‘New Ep: ‘Miranda and [her sitcom love interest] Gary go Kayaking’: ‘I just took a mouthful of perfect red wine, and I had to spit it back… Straddle It. Hilarious’: ‘I lost count of how many times I had to watch this clip and I couldn’t help but laugh every time. It’s so relatable. I couldn’t even get in a kayak with my bad knees at my age’.
‘Oh that’s so funny! I’d be the same, at least it doesn’t show if you wet yourself laughing!’: ‘I’m only laughing because that would be me!’: ‘I think we were separated at birth Amanda’: ‘Thank you Miranda. I did not know how much I needed to see this today, until I did. And yes, that would totally be me too!!! Well done for giving it your best shot x’.
Earlier this month Miranda admitted that she has to ‘live one day at a time’ amid her three-decade long battle with Lyme disease.
The TV star had been off the nation’s screens for four years when she revealed her illness and surprise wedding joy as she launched her autobiography last year.
And she took to Instagram with an update on her condition as she teased a ‘new literary offering’ that is coming later this week.
She said in her clip: ‘Hello to you. Well I have news…’
She then started humming the Strictly Come Dancing theme tune before quickly adding: ‘No I’m joking, that was a joke.. or was that a double bluff, no really it was a joke I shouldn’t have said that…
He filmed her slapstick attempts to climb out of the canoe before Miranda finally fell into the water with a splash
Miranda, who wore a wetsuit and shades on her head, was totally flummoxed by his suggestions as the kayak perilously shook from side to side
Pictured with husband Richard in November 2024
Miranda’s attempts continued before she eventually fell into the water as fans raced to the comments, with one claiming it was like watching a new episode of her show
Her TV alter ego was known for her lovable clumsiness (pictured on the show)
‘The menopausal mounds of this body is not ready for any sort of dancefloor let alone one on national television – no one is ready for that.
‘No the news is that I am sharing some news on Thursday so this is the pre news news. This time last year I was rather anxiously telling people I had written a book about suffering from Lyme disease and other delightful associated conditions.
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‘I was keeping it a secret that I had just got married as it was a story in said book. I am still completely every day amazed and blown away that people have been blown away by the book.
‘That’s another reason I couldn’t do Strictly as the whole Lyme disease and chronic illness if you are a fellow sufferer then you will know that it really is living one day at time.
‘It would be too soon the dancing every day for three months. I’ll do it when I’m 60 I’ve decided. Anyway the news is coming on Thursday, this is the pre news news.’
She penned in the caption of her post: ‘News coming on Thursday about a new little literary offering…. Nothing too exciting, but my remit for it was ‘cosy’. And I find cosy exciting….’
Back in June she revealed her hopes to return to creating comedy – ten years after her hit show last aired.
She has previously said that she ‘missed laughter’ in her time away from TV, adding that she was ‘really keen to get back to some silliness now’.
But it now seems that she is finally ready to get back to the drawing board – after confessing her hopes to actor Tim Key after a screening of his new film The Ballad of Wallis Island.
‘Miranda Hart came and she said: ‘That’s very freeing. I’d like to make something again,” the Alan Partridge star told the Elis James and John Robins show.
It comes after Miranda admitted that she has to ‘live one day at a time’ amid her three-decade long battle with Lyme disease
She had been off the nation’s screens for four years when she revealed her illness and surprise wedding joy as she launched her autobiography last year
James, joking that the film had been so good it had forced him to give up on his writing dreams, responded: ‘You’ve lost James and won Hart.’
Key, 48, replied: ‘It’s swings and roundabouts. We’ve turned you off and Miranda back on.’
It came as the star shared a cryptic social media post, a quote from Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.
It said that ‘when you let go of the frantic search for validation, you find yourself exactly where you are meant to be, with the tools you need to go forward. It is from this place of quiet assurance that the most beautiful things emerge.’
Miranda has kept a low-profile in recent years. The comedian rose to fame with her self-titled sitcom series in 2009 and went on to star in Call The Midwife as Chummy from 2012 until 2015.
In 2017 it was revealed Miranda would not be returning to Call The Midwife, citing a busy work schedule as her reason.
But she later revealed during an stand-up gig in London that she had been suffering from ‘ill’ health
She was last seen in 2020’s film adaptation of Jane Austin, where she played ‘harmless chatterbox’ Miss Bates.