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Sunday Mirror March 2000 by Pauline McLeod

JOSEPH ON CAROLINE

Caroline's very romantic. She's the first and only woman to send me flowers and I cried. We'd met in March 1997 on a tour of Noel Coward's Salad Days, but I left the company before she did.

Ten months later I asked her to marry me while we were in Paris. I know it is a really romantic city, but I didn't really plan it.

I had a week off from the theatre run I was in so I went over to see Caroline who was in a production there.

We decided to go up the Eiffel Tower because we thought it was something lovely to do as a couple, even though it was freezing cold. The inspiration must have been divine as

I never thought, "Oh, this is the Eiffel Tower, it'll be a good moment to pop the question."

I'm a bit of a bumpkin (from Peak Practice online)

Dr Sam's country life is also the best medicine for actor Joseph Millson

Since he joined Peak Practice last year, Dr Sam Morgan has established himself as The Beeches handsome healer, the one Cardale's babes are keenest to play doctor with. But so far, Sam's hectic schedule has left him little time for love. Even his relationship with Serena cools this week.

The Mirror interview by Nathalie Graham February 2000

NAME: Joseph Millson, 25, is Dr Sam Morgan in ITV's Peak Practice.

STATUS: Married to actress Caroline Fitzgerald. LIVES: Flat in North London.

EARNS: "More than I ever dreamt of."

MONEY ATTITUDE: "Since my marriage eight months ago I am trying to save and be more sensible."

EXTRAVAGANCE: Paying pounds 500 for a gargoyle.

PEAK Practice gave Joseph Millson the chance to buy his own home at 24, instead of in his thirties.

The News Letter (Belfast) October 1999

Joseph Millson, the actor who plays the dashing young GP, also found himself heavily involved with a woman during filming - his new wife.

The handsome 25-year-old took just three days out of a hectic shooting schedule to marry his girlfriend, actress Caroline Fitzgerald.

''We had planned the wedding before I got the job on Peak Practice,'' he explains. ''We got engaged in February last year after meeting in the West End production of Salad Days.

''I had to rush down from the Peak District shoot to Berkshire for the wedding and then be back on set just a few days later.''

Daily Mirror Sept 1999 interview with Clare Raymond

If it had been any other teenager it would have been just another minor accident, but when Joseph Millson gashed his knee a major trauma followed that almost cost him his life.

He suffered a heart attack, then paralysis, and he was convinced he was going to die. That near-fatal day ten years ago still haunts the rising star of Peak Practice, because Joseph has an allergy to local anaesthetic that is so severe it could kill him.

Ironically, the heartthrob television doctor certainly looks healthy enough. At 25, he is outstandingly handsome with moody, brown eyes, olive skin, a scratching of designer stubble and swept-back glossy brown hair.