ITV's Without Sin brought a closed Victoria Centre café back to life - much to the delight of the former owner's daughter. In the first five minutes of the ITVX show, Nottingham-born star Vicky McClure's character Stella visits 'Ronnie's' in the Victoria Centre's market, where she chats with staff and police officer friend Remy.
But if you visit the Victoria Market now you'll see an empty space where the café was - the eatery featured in the show was entirely fictional. The previous café there, Maria's Pantry, closed down in 2020, but the reinvention of the eatery for filming impressed one local worker - who happened to be the daughter of the previous business owner.
Tammy Blagden's mother Maria used to run Maria's Pantry before it closed at the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020. The 36-year-old, who works at Gold Bank, just across from the shutdown café, was delighted by seeing the ITV show bring life back to the place where her mum had worked for years.
