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Baby Reindeer star Richard Gadd returned to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time since 2019 - and was accompanied by his fellow Netflix star Jessica Gunning.
Richard tried to keep a low profile as he attended Pleasance venue the EICC alongside Jessica for industry event the Edinburgh TV awards.
He was nominated for Best Drama and Best TV actor and sat in the audience alongside Jessica who was also nominated and won the award for Best TV Actor.
After the ceremony, Richard told fans outside: “I love coming back to Scotland and Edinburgh when I can and of course have recently been working on my new series Half Man for HBO and BBC but can’t say much else just now.”
Jessica also admitted she was thrilled to be back in Edinburgh.
She said on stage: “Some of those performances are the best I’ve seen in my life so to be nominated genuinely is really really an honour. Thankyou so much for this award. It encapsulated all my favourite things, Edinburgh, TV, winning awards ha!”
“This is especially special because the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is where Baby Reindeer began and I thank my lucky stars every day that Mr Richard Gadd trusted me to be his Martha and this is very very special. I kind of don’t really have the words really. Just thankyou to everybody involved in the show and especially thankyou to Richard for everything.”
She later added: “I used to come here when one of my good friends was performing at the Fringe so it’s great to be back.”
Richard recently said he wouldn’t be returning to the Fringe in an interview on Marc Maron's podcast.
He explained: “Even when it goes well, the Fringe can be tough.
“Every time I would gear up to go and think: 'I'm not going to let it affect me this month. It's one hour's work a night and I just need to get through it.'
"But whatever happened, by the end of the month I would be like a dead man walking… I think doing Edinburgh shows, is probably a thing of the past.
Gadd last appeared at the Fringe in 2019, with the stage play version of Baby Reindeer.
