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27th August 2022
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"I think he’s chosen to avoid it because maybe he’s heard comments about me," she said, before joking about her label as "TV’s fittest mum".
"Well it’s quite good fun isn’t it, it means that my work has gone well if people are talking about a part that I’ve played. I never saw it coming, to be one of TV’s fittest mums, it’s a weird combination of things but I’m happy to accept the crown.
"I think Polly became infamous because of the way the boys talked about her. Her screentime wasn't enormous but I was lucky she got talked about a lot, though in some quite extreme ways."
Fans have been repeatedly calling for The Inbetweeners – which was nominated for a best sitcom in 2009 BAFTA and spawned two films in 2011 and 2014 – to come back in some way, but the cast isn't keen on making a grown-up series.
Buckley, who played cocky loudmouth Jay, said earlier this year: "It’s a hard no, I’m afraid. It just wouldn’t be the show people want or remember."
The actor, who was speaking to Chris Moyles on Radio X when he made the revelation, started by assuring listeners that playing Jay was the "best job in the world" but explained that, should series co-creators Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, approach the quartet for a return, he wouldn't be interested.
“I don’t want to go near it anymore, not because I don’t think I would have an amazing time doing it, because I know I would," he told the presenter, as per Yahoo Movies.
“I love the boys, I love the writers. Doing The Inbetweeners was the best job in the world.
“All we did was muck around all day long and they filmed us doing it, and, at the end of the day, we might have had an episode… or a film or something.
“But it might – you know, as I’m getting older – it’s looking like it might be the only thing that I do professionally that is universally loved.
“There’s not enough money in the world for me to spoil that.”
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