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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hollie Richardson

‘He was devastatingly sexy’: Frasier’s Jane Leeves and David Hyde Pierce on the love between Daphne and Niles

Daphne and Niles doing a passionate tango in Frasier
‘Our bodies must be in continuous contact!’ Daphne and Niles in the actors’ favourite scene. Photograph: NBC/NBCUniversal/Getty Images

“Dr Crane, your glockenspiel has sprung to life!”

It was a crush. An unexpected one. The psychiatrist Niles Crane (snooty, conflict-avoidant, married to a high-society wife with a fear of buffets) fell for his father’s physio, Daphne Moon (working class, Mancunian, reckons she’s a bit psychic) the moment he met her in his brother’s Seattle apartment.

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