Behind the scenes on Rivals season two: 'It's bigger, bolder, bonkier!'

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Colin Paterson Entertainment correspondent

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Danny Dyer: "My grandchildren only know me as a moustached man, and that depresses me"

On a freezing November evening in the Cotswolds, Danny Dyer is calling on more than 30 years' experience as an actor to prepare himself to cope with the night of filming ahead.

"You got to put them heat pads in your trotters," he says, gesturing towards his feet.

"I've got two double ones for me toes," he continues, "and Long Johns obviously."

We have been invited to the set of Rivals, the adaptation of Jilly Cooper's bonkbuster, which has generated exactly the kind of heat the cast and crew could do with tonight.

The location is Chavenage House, near Tetbury in Gloucestershire, where a bonfire scene is to be filmed for season two.

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Poldark actor Aidan Turner's character, TV presenter Declan O'Hara, also sports an impressive moustache

In the series,…