‘I am a person I’m not just turning up and having my face used for two days without anyone talking to me.’ She hasn’t left modelling behind entirely – she is currently a face of Estée Lauder and jeweller Mappin & Webb – but now it’s on her terms as an actress. Now the boys spend all day covered in mud and Gabriella says she feels part of a new community. Living deep in the Somerset countryside, Gabriella’s life has assumed an intentionally slower pace since she and Alan left London after Sasha was born. And it is a long name – it is a ridiculous one.’ ‘I didn’t want to walk into an audition and people to have a preconceived idea of who I was. She says she did this because she didn’t want to experience prejudice. She was born Gabriella Zanna Vanessa Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, a loquacious mouthful that she changed to Wilde upon signing with an acting agent (inspired by an Oscar Wilde book in the agent’s office). Gabriella has a history of forging her own path. ‘That was amazing and definitely not the norm.’ That is something that is quite hard to push for, but I feel strongly that it shouldn’t be.’Ĭonsequently, the costume department fashioned a specially adapted dress so that she could breastfeed Shiloh between takes and be with him throughout filming. ‘I let the producers know if I was going to have a baby with me next time we were filming, I would be breastfeeding and they would need to make allowances for that. ‘I have strong feelings about how I want to raise my kids,’ she says. Gabriella learnt of her second pregnancy days after winning the role of Caroline Penvenen, so the series had to be filmed to accommodate her growing bump, hidden by her character’s pet pug and strategically placed furniture.
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