"I've been asked to do things like Celebrity MasterChef but I am a terrible cook. You would have to be quite good to do a programme like that so it would be a bad idea," Nichol said. Responding to a fan on Twitter in 2019, Downton writer Julian Fellowes confirmed this was indeed the case. "It's wonderful, really, that Lesley Nicol cannot cook an egg. She's now vowed to learn how to cook because she's been asked all sorts of things, and she literally can't make a ham sandwich."
That may be so, but Nicol is more than up for returning to serving the residents of Downton Abbey. "I am allowed to say there absolutely is a desire [for the series to return] and they are trying to round the troops up to do it, yes," the actor told the Daily Mail. This would be in the form of a sequel to the 2019 film, however, not another season of the show. "If you promise not to tell anyone, I'll let you know that we've seen a script," actor Jim Carter (who plays Carson) said during an interview with ITV daytime show, This Morning (via Good Housekeeping). "It's got all the same characters in, all the regular characters, and I think the will is — Covid willing — we'll film it next year." Here's hoping.
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