Ralf Little pays tribute to his Royle Family co-star and friend, the late Caroline Aherne
Ralf Little has paid tribute to his friend and colleague Caroline Aherne who died, aged 52, on July 2 after a long battle with cancer.
Caroline worked with Ralf when he played dogsbody ‘Our Antony', the brother of her lazy character Denise in The Royle Family, which she wrote with Craig Cash, who played Denise’s dozy husband Dave.
"Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash gave me a career. It is hard to imagine anyone who has had more of an impact on my life professionally or personally and she was always really supportive of my work," Ralf told TV Times at the launch of new Channel 5 comedy Borderline, which he is executive producing.
"I was not going to be an actor until then; I was just a 17-year-old skinny kid who was dragged along for the ride of a lifetime."
Ralf admitted that shooting the BBC sitcom, which ran from 1998 to 2000 and was followed by several much-anticipated Christmas specials, was fun from start to finish
"It was essentially about turning up to work, having tears of laughter for 12 hours, then going to the pub and carrying on laughing. I’m amazed we filmed anything because all I can remember is laughing all day," says Ralf.
"Caroline just saw the world differently from everyone else and was able to find humour in the minutiae of life. We lost one of the good ones. It is a big loss for all of us."
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