Perils of Covid quarantine

Diane Morgan has revealed she got rickets shooting the second series Frayed, after spending two weeks cooped up in a dingy Australian hotel room.

She shot the Sky comedy – written by and starring Sarah Kendall – during the Covid pandemic, which meant she had to quarantine for a fortnight after arriving in the country.

‘My view was just a brick wall for two weeks,’ she told Alan Carr on his Life’s A Beach podcast. ‘I  got rickets, it was so dark. 

‘I had to put the lights on and the lights would blow because they'd been on so long. And then the service man wouldn't come into the room because they didn't want to get Covid.

‘So I was just sat in the dark. Two weeks.’

Rickets is a bone condition caused by a lack of vitamin D – which the body makes from sunlight – that causes bones to become soft and deformed. 

In Frayed – which was set in 1988 Newcastle, New South Wales – the Philomena Cunk star played Fiona, a colleague of  Kendall’s lead character Simone, who had returned to her life in relatively smalltown Australia after her cosmopolitan life in London fell apart.

Here she is in the show:

Published: 27 Jun 2023