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Steven Perkins

Playing Nice's James McArdle talks playing vile Miles and surfing contests with James Norton

Miles and Lucy at a charity event, smiling in Playing Nice .

Is Miles Lambert from Playing Nice, portrayed by James McArdle, the first great TV villain of 2025?

After Pete Riley (James Norton) and Maddie Wilson (Niamh Algar) discovered that a hospital mix-up had led to them unknowingly taking home the biological child of Miles and his wife Lucy (Jessica Brown Findlay) — with Miles and Lucy raising Pete and Maddie's son — the two couples met to try and work out a way that they could all successfully be a part of each other's lives without uprooting the children. But what Pete and Maddie didn't realise was that Miles and Lucy were playing them all along, and intended to seek full custody of both boys.

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