Generation gap


Rebecca Front is only 14 years older than Simon Amstell whose mum she plays in this programme. Angela Bassett who plays her mother is only 15 years older than her. Does under age pregnancy run in this family, the cycle only broken when Simon realised he was gay?

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How mean.
Althought there was a moment of worry that Simons cousin got that girl in the school pregnant and is ,becouse of that, being but to catholic school.
It does seem to run in the family.
Simon got lucky that he is gay.

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Its not mean to point out that Rebecca Front is too young to play Simon Amstell's mum.

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The thing with acting is that people don't necessarily play people exactly like them. Rebecca Front's character could easily be as old as her late 40s and she just looks a lot younger. It really wouldn't be much of a stretch.

Art is a lie that tells the truth.

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Well if Simons mother was 49, she would have had Simon at 18. Her first hubby is a cradle snatcher, pure and simple!

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She is an actress playing a character who is 50. It is mentioned a few times that 50 is just the right age to get married.



You are not a human being, Lola, you are an epidemic.

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Okay, she had Simon at 19, still pretty young to marry unless your hubby is going off to war.

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Estelle Getty was 2 years younger than her on screen daughter Bea Arthur on The Golden Girls

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Yes but she was made up to look older, like Clive Dunn in Dads Army, Stephen Lewis in On The Buses. Rebecca Front looks younger than she really is, if anything.

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