He told me not to be so daft – that Kayleigh was written with me in mind and that she is just a heightened, funnier version of me.” 'I wouldn't rule out romance' “It was the biggest thing I have ever done and I was nervous about letting him down. I wasn’t nervous about working with Peter. “It sounds crazy but I suddenly thought Sheridan Smith or Suranne Jones could have done Kayleigh standing on their head,” she explained. However, Sian admitted that she nearly backed out of playing scatty Kayleigh after getting last-minute jitters. Anyway it’s only a couple of hours away by train.” I don’t think I could cope with life in London. Sian said: “I am Welsh girl from a little village. It was like a dream.”ĭespite her taste of fame in London’s bright lights, she has no intention of moving to the capital. I am a massive telly addict so I was totally starstruck. Sian attended this month’s National Television Awards for the first time as the show lifted the gong for best comedy. That’s why I love where I live – no one really cares. “I guess they didn’t expect it, though they slowly they put two and two together. Read more: From Car Share to Do Not Disturb Funnily enough, people didn’t recognise me as Kayleigh. “I didn’t even tell any of the mums on the school run Car Share was on and that I was in it. “It was all a bit of a shock because it happened overnight. I didn’t expect Car Share to be as massive or successful as it was. Thrilled Sian added: “It’s all been a bit mental. Two years after leaving the call centre, Car Share became TV’s biggest new comedy in years. I think I only stayed so long because I liked the toasties from the garden centre next door.” 'It's all been a bit mental' “I was really rubbish at my job, I didn’t even try – it was a lovely place and people were lovely, it just wasn’t for me sat in office all day. Sian revealed: “I sort of fell out of acting really. She had started working at the call centre as a temporary job but ended up staying four years. Sian, whose hubby Ian works for British Gas, lives in a small village, three-year-old Gracie goes to the local nursery, while parents Gaynor and retired builder Ted live just five minutes away.
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Sian quit her job and began working on the script for the unlikely sitcom, about workmates sharing a car ride to work at a supermarket.ĭo Not Disturb is Sian's next TV appearance And she didn’t’ hesitate at taking up the offer.
Peter is an old Salford University pal and is godparent to Sian’s daughter. It contained the idea for Car Share and simply asked whether she would like to appear as his co-star – playing hapless, loveable Kayleigh, the blue-uniformed store worker who sits in the passenger seat alongside Peter’s character John. Sian was working at the Card One Banking call centre near her home in North Wales when her fortunes changed.Īn email from pal Peter, 42, sent her into a spin and has totally changed her life. Ironically, the 39-year-old’s chance of fame came after she had given up on acting, fed up with missing out on parts. “If they knew I’d done some acting they would be forever saying I should try to get a part in Hollyoaks or something.” 'I lost my confidence' They just thought that I was a mum with a young kid trying to make ends meet. People at work didn’t know I was an actress or that I knew Peter.
Sian confessed: “If I had said I was leaving to go and write a comedy with Peter Kay about two people sat in a car they would think I had gone mad. The North Wales star shocked her former colleagues when she appeared in the BBC1 sitcom, attracting audiences of nine million and turning her into TV’s latest award-winning star. The Car Share star has admitted she even chickened out telling her bosses she was leaving her job because comedy giant Peter Kay had offered her job, instead saying she was struggling to get child-care for daughter Gracie. ‘I didn’t even tell any of the mums on the school run’ - comedy star Sian Gibson may be the star of one of last year’s biggest TV hits but she still manages to go incognito.
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