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Paul Goddard is just heaven. I can’t think of any other word that would describe him.

I haven’t ever had an intense love relationship with an actor character before. The longest I ever was in a series for was six months and I didn’t have a love interest, so this was the first time. [It was] not only having a love interest that’s human, but you’re talking about a spiritual love interest, the love that Stark and Zhaan had was on a spiritual plane. It wasn’t earthly, their love was in another dimension.

Their love was how I fantasise human love to be, but of course can’t be. It was a spiritual love, so you can’t work with an actor that closely and have that intensity of emotion [without having something of it in reality.] Don’t forget that as actors, we try to get as truthful as we can with the emotion, so if we’re supposed to have a spiritual love we try as much as we can as humans to find that. He’s a beautiful spiritual man and I had a big spiritual side of me, and that side was in love with Paul’s spiritual side.

We absolutely adore each other but it’s not physical, it’s the kind of love that will last forever. So he is a very special human being and means the world to me. It wouldn’t have happened, it’s just one of those things – he had a partner and I had a partner but I like to think that in another world Paul and I, Paul and Virginia fell in love. I think we’d probably die and go to heaven. He’s gorgeous, yeah, he’s lovely.