It is with incredible sadness that I share the news of the passing of our dear friend Geoffrey Hutchings. He was the most talented actor I have ever worked with and a hugely popular memeber of the Benidorm cast. I saw Geoff and his wife Andi only a couple of weeks ago at the screening of his latest TV series ‘Grandma’s House’, he was on top form and we all shared a lovely evening. It still hasn’t quite sunk in that we won’t see him again.
All of the Benidorm cast send Andi our heartfelt love.
This is just adios and not goodbye. x
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10494592.stm
Update :
Just a short blog today. I wanted to thank everyone for their very kind messages of sympathy regarding the untimely passing of our dear friend and cast member of Benidorm, Geoffrey Hutchings. It still feels surreal that we won’t see Geoff at the read through, or see him on our screens any longer. Sadly I can’t reply to everyone and those who sent their messages via formspring, I’m sorry I deleted your messages but I did read them all, it seemed a little odd and repetitive to have a string of answers saying the same thing.
A question I can answer here was “will you keep the character of Mel and re-cast with a different actor?”. No, Geoff was a one off, we could never replace him and we wouldn’t want to try.
Update :
Just a short blog today. I wanted to thank everyone for their very kind messages of sympathy regarding the untimely passing of our dear friend and cast member of Benidorm, Geoffrey Hutchings. It still feels surreal that we won’t see Geoff at the read through, or see him on our screens any longer. Sadly I can’t reply to everyone and those who sent their messages via formspring, I’m sorry I deleted your messages but I did read them all, it seemed a little odd and repetitive to have a string of answers saying the same thing.
A question I can answer here was “will you keep the character of Mel and re-cast with a different actor?”. No, Geoff was a one off, we could never replace him and we wouldn’t want to try.
