So that's where Sally went

I was watching a few episodes of Man About the House and once again wondered where Sally disappeared to. A quick google hit an old newspaper article https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/man-house-star-sally-thomsett-14446462 which I've summarized below. She sounds as daffy and pleasant as the characters she played.

Sally took a break, went travelling and ended up in Los Angeles, where she married Danish film producer Claus Hede Nielsen.

A few years later, estranged from her husband, she met her current partner, Paul Agnew, and unexpectedly got pregnant at the age of 46 with her daughter, Charlotte. Sally has been with Paul for more than 20 years but technically is still married to Claus.

She says: “I haven’t seen Claus since 1985. I don’t know where he is to divorce him. I think he went back to Denmark, or to LA. I’m still legally his wife, but I haven’t got a clue where he is. “What does it really matter? It’s not as if he’s bothering me.”

Having Charlotte changed her perspective. Sally decided not to act whilst Charlotte was very young but the timing didn’t turn out well. That was the time of Big Brother and reality TV starting, and they’d stopped making nice comedies.

Sally made the transition from child actor to a grown-up star with ease - though she was actually 20 when she played 11-year old Phyllis Waterbury in The Railway Children. Her favorite role was as the flirtatious Janice in psychological thriller Straw Dogs. When she went for the audition Dustin Hoffman, who played the lead role, was there and he was mega at the time, but so nice. She later went on to star in six series, plus a film, of the hit ITV sitcom Man About The House, from 1973-76.