EXCLUSIVE: Kris Marshall playfully instructed which of the lead stars of Loss of life in Paradise he thinks is the very best.
Kris Marshall starred as Humphrey Goodman on Loss of life in Paradise from 2014 to 2017 (Picture: BBC)
Kris Marshall has shared his trustworthy ideas about Loss of life in Paradise’s lead detectives. The 52-year-old was the second actor to play Saint Marie’s lead detective within the hit BBC present, taking up from Ben Miller in 2014. He starred as Humphrey Goodman for 3 sequence earlier than passing the baton over to Ardal O’Hanlon. Fortunately, Kris did not bid farewell to Humphrey without end, as he reprised the position for the spin-off Past Paradise, which premiered in 2023.
Just like Guadeloupe, the place Loss of life in Paradise has been filmed since 2011, the coastal city of Looe in South East Cornwall has develop into a must-visit vacation spot for followers, who usually get the possibility to look at Kris and his co-stars filming the sequence. In September 2025, Loss of life in Paradise fan Mike Mitchell and his spouse Liz headed right down to the set to look at filming. There, he had an opportunity encounter with Kris, who cheekily instructed who the very best detective on the present is.
Mike Mitchell met Kris when he went to Cornwall to look at the filming of Past Paradise (Picture: Mike Mitchell)
Mike advised us: “Final Summer time we went right down to Cornwall to look at them movie Past Paradise. We noticed just a few scenes being shot. We would solely been in Looe for about two hours and we ran into Kris Marshall strolling down the road.
“We knew they have been filming in that space however we have been simply strolling down this street and he was coming in direction of us, so we stopped and had a little bit chat with him and we met just a few different members of the solid.”
He continued: “He was heading to set so he wasn’t hanging round an excessive amount of. However I did inform him that he was the third DI that we have met from Loss of life in Paradise after Ralf Little and Don Gilet.
“He simply rotated and mentioned, ‘Now you have met the very best one.'”
Mike and Liz have been additionally lucky sufficient to fulfill Zahra Ahmadi, who has performed DS Esther Williams on the present because it started in 2023.
Having visited Guadeloupe on three separate events and even appeared as extras on the present twice, Mike and Liz are accustomed to numerous members of the solid and crew.
He described Selwyn Patterson star Don Warrington as “charming” and recalled how Ralf, 46, finest recognized for enjoying Neville Parker, was extraordinarily supportive and inspiring earlier than they filmed as extras.
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