A very excited Sara Kameela Impey counted down the hours until her Vera debut and urged fans to tune in as she made her first appearances as new character Dr Paula Bennett on Sunday night.
Last weekend, there was some upset amongst Vera fans when pathologist Dr Malcolm Donahue bowed out of the much loved ITV drama, having been a big audience favourite over the last few years. Viewers have lapped up the rather cutting exchanges between Dr Malcolm and Brenda Blethyn's famous on screen alias, with their final exchanges seeing Malcolm get one last dig in, as he accused Vera of 'trampling all over the evidence' in series 12 opener Against The Tide.
It was leading actress Brenda who revealed that comedian Paul Kaye, who played Malcolm, had quit Vera and it was also Brenda who first confirmed Sara as his replacement, when she said: "When they first meet Vera isn’t quite sure what to make of her and thinks she’s a bit too clever for her own good. But she is clever in a good sense."
