Lady Dedlock's Flimsy Dress
Posted at 6:19 AM (PST) on Thursday, November 24, 2005

The Express
November 22, 2005
By Hickey

Does Prunella Scales know her husband Timothy West has been ripping off Gillian Anderson's dress? Although Dickens's version of Bleak House never contained any nudity, Timothy - who appears in the BBC's adaptation alongside the X Files star - has managed to disrobe her twice.

"Gillian had to faint and I had to pick her up," he recalls. "She was wearing a long, flimsy dress and as I knelt down to pick her up, the dress tore from top to bottom." After being stitched back into the dress, she resumed filming. "And the same thing happened," says Timothy. "Gillian was very nice about it. She was still talking to me and that's a star in my book."