Channel 5 drama The Feud is set to premiere soon – and it will star Only Fools and Horses icon Tessa Peake-Jones. She’ll be starring alongside Jill Halfpenny, Coronation Street legend Chris Gascoyne, Larry Lamb and Alex Macqueen, with Tessa taking on the role of Barbara Abshire in the six-episode series. The official synopsis for the upcoming thriller states: “Neighbours on an idyllic suburban street have a falling-out over one family’s plan to build an extension to their house”.

But the show itself isn’t the only thing with confusing and tense relationships – as Tessa had a 30-year romance with her on-screen son in a bombshell revelation. While appearing as Raquel Turner in Only Fools and Horses, she fell in love with her co-star Douglas Hodge, who played her son Damien.

That’s where the story gets a little complicated. In the sitcom, Raquel gives birth to Del Boy’s son Damien, who is seen as a baby on-screen before being played by Ben Smith as a teenager. In one episode, however, Rodney dreams up a dystopian future with an adult version of Damien taking over the world and declaring war on China.

That adult version was played by Douglas Hodge, who struck up a romance with Tessa. The pair started dating in 1984 and welcomed two children together – son Charlie and daughter Mollie Rose. Sadly by 2013 the pair had split after 29 years together.

The pair said they had made a “mutual and amicable agreement” to split and that they would “continue to raise their two children jointly”. Douglas then went on to tie the knot with Amanda Miller, a wigmaker who he met while working in theatre.

In an interview with The Guardian, Douglas shared an insight into his relationship with Amanda, telling the publication: “My wife made the nose I wore to play Cyrano de Bergerac on Broadway. They had this lumbering thing that kept falling off in rehearsals, so she came up with the genius idea of making it in foam and having a new one every night.

“When she first presented me with it, she placed it on her own nose first, then put it on mine. I thought, ‘Bloody hell, that’s a bit overfamiliar!’ With Nixon, I wanted to hold a seance and try to summon him up, just me and my wife, but she put a stop to that. She said, ‘We’re not having Nixon in our home!’”