Sophie’s choices risk royal wrath
SHE recently declared she has no intention of becoming a mum for years and new royal bride Sophie Winkleman’s acting career shows no signs of slowing down either.
Just days after her wedding, the 29-year-old has committed to the latest series of risqué comedy Peep Show, we hear. Sophie, who has starred as Big Suze in the popular Channel 4 show with David Mitchell and Robert Webb since the third series, hasn’t let her new links to the throne affect her rising TV profile.
The day after Sophie married Lord Freddie Windsor, the pair flew out to Hollywood so she could begin filming new US comedy series 100 Questions , dubbed a cross between Sex And The City and Friends.
Now she has signed to the seventh series of Peep Show, it is clearly business as usual for The Firm’s ambitious new recruit, who has so far resisted adopting her new official title of Lady Frederick Windsor.
The only way Sophie wont appear is if her US career goes stellar. Her spokesperson said: “Sophie is in America but we don’t know how long for. The show could run and run if it’s a success.” Whether the royals like the idea of her TV career taking off remains to be seen.
Sophie, the half-sister of TV’s Claudia Winkleman, ruffled royal feathers long before her wedding by starring in the ill-fated ITV series The Palace, before it was axed after the first series. Penny Junor, Prince Charles’s biographer, suggested ITV was exploiting the Royal Family by presenting fiction as fact.
While Peep Show may be less likely to offend Sophie’s new in-laws, the subject matters of sex and drugs are still a million miles away from It’s A Royal Knockout and the Queen’s speech.