Holby star Rosie Marcel reveals 'pretty violent' birth of daughter

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TV doctor Rosie Marcel had a medical drama of her own when she gave birth to her daughter Beau last month.

The actress, who plays surgeon Jac Naylor in Holby City, even had the show's theme tune in the background in the operating theatre.

She told Hello! Magazine: "Beau's birth wasn't really like an episode of Holby City - not much!"

The star, who had a Caesarean because of a rare blood disorder, said she was not a model patient.

She said: "Beau's hand and foot came out first and the surgeon had to turn her around to bring her out. It was pretty violent. Apparently I was very inappropriate and was shouting for drugs and screaming blue murder."

She told the magazine there was a lighter moment when her consultant 'walked into the operating theatre with the music from Holby playing in his pocket'.

The actress, who plans to breastfeed, says she will cover up in public but warned anyone trying to stop her would see the steely side of her character from the show.

She said: "We all have a right to breastfeed and if anyone asks me to leave a restaurant, they'll get the Jac Naylor side of me."

 

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.