Call the Midwife’s Olly Rix didn’t see Trixie’s dress until the wedding

Call The Midwife fans are eagerly anticipating this weekend’s season finale, which depicts the long-planned wedding between Nurse Trixie (Helen George) and Matthew Aylward (Olly Rix).

Olly Rix was interviewed this week on the Lorraine show and he revealed that he avoided seeing Nurse Trixie in her bridal wear before shooting the scene to replicate the feeling of a real wedding.

“I’d made an agreement,” he began. “Anyone I knew that could help me with this, I pulled to one side and said, ‘Look, I don’t want to see Helen. I don’t want to see the dress.”

He continued: “Mark, the guy who was driving me to set, I said to him, ‘I don’t want to arrive at the same time as Helen, I don’t want to see her getting out of the car.’ I did everything I could to see Helen for the first time pretty much when she was walking down the aisle, which was nice.”

Trixie and Matthew have a history that dates back to season 10 of the show, when she helped to deliver his first wife’s baby, who later died after being diagnosed with acute leukaemia.

Their relationship gradually blossomed after he had taken time to grieve, culminating in his proposal to her in the 2022 Christmas special, sending Trixie into planning mode in Call The Midwife season 12.

The BBC has confirmed two more series of the long-running hit show Call The Midwife.

The 12th season of the show returned on New Year’s Day and has explored topics such as domestic abuse, mental health problems and racism.