A WAINWRIGHT WITH WORDS
BAFTA award-winning Last Tango In Halifax is back, and oh, has it been a long time coming. Indeed, there was much speculation about whether it would return at all. So how does writer Sally Wainwright feel to finally be tango-ing again? “It feels really good,” the 57-year-old tells me when we talk on the phone the day after a screening of the first episode. “There’s been a fantastic response from the audience. It’s all been very positive and good fun.”
It’s not based on the original premise The original premise for the show, two widowed pensioners who rekindle an old romance after reconnecting on social media, is based on Sally’s mother, who herself married again at 75. Five seasons in, how closely – if at all – does it resemble real life? “What happened was that my mum got married to
