PEOPLE THOUGHT I WAS BONKERS TO HAVE A BABY AT 16.. BUT I DON'T REGRET A THING

TV sex-in-suburb drama star Georgia tells of shock that threatened to ruin her.

Exclusive by Jon Wise.

Blonde beauty Georgia Moffett was as shocked as her famous parents when she fell pregnant at the tender age of 16.

But screen stars Peter Davison and Sandra Dickinson backed their daughter all the way - and told her to ignore the people who said the baby would ruin her own screen potential.

Now Georgia, 22, is the proud mum to son Ty - and her acting career has never looked better with a star role in the wacky new ITV comedy-drama series Bonkers.

Georgia said: "When I first discovered I was pregnant it was a real shock but I never once thought 'This is it -my life is over'.

"Once I decided to have the baby I never looked back.

"I just tried to remain very positive and things have worked out. My life has NOT been ruined in any way, as some people seemed to think it might be.

"Mum and dad were brilliant about it -very supportive -once they got over the initial shock."

Georgia is slightly more worried about what dad Peter, 55 -one-time Dr Who-and American mum Sandra, 58, will think about her new role in the sex-in-the-suburbs drama.

Bonkers viewers have seen her scheming character Debbie having a romp with her fiancé's hunky young nephew because her husband-to-be isn't well-endowed enough.

Georgia said: "Debbie seems empty-headed and tarty at first but she truly loves her fiancé and isn't really the evil cow she might appear at first.

"It's just that she wants to experience sex with a bigger man.

"Seeing me in those scenes was probably not going to be my parents' most exciting experience - especially for Dad.

"He was probably not going to want to watch me doing that but I have had to watch him doing it many times. So the tables have turned, mister.

"But they know what the acting game is about so hopefully they'll be all right with it."

Georgia admits she was nervous when she filmed sex scenes with Stewart Wright, who plays her fiancé John, and hunky Charles Aitken, who is John's randy student nephew Tim.

She said: "Stewart and Charlie were absolutely delightful to work with. They were both very conscious of not wanting to make me feel uncomfortable because they knew it was my first time doing a sex scene.

"Actually, it was Charlie's first time, too, and by the time it came to our scene in bed I had already done my sex scene with John, so I was kind of talking Charlie into a state of relaxation.

"He was so sweet about it and said: 'But I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable.

"In fact, both of them had a much tougher job than me because Debbie didn't have to be naked.

But one of the guys had to show his bottom to the camera and the other was completely starkers. All I had to do was to lie there and make noises."

Bonkers, which also stars Liza Tarbuck as a forty something harassed mum, is the raunchiest role yet for Georgia.

She appeared in several episodes of ITV's Peak Practice when she was 14.

Then in 2002 - the year she gave birth to son Ty - she began playing copper's daughter Abigail Nixon in The Bill.

Georgia had little to do with Ty's father but found happiness and a settled home life with her co-star Adam Paul Harvey from ITV's cosy Sunday drama Where The Heart Is.

Adam, 23, played the boyfriend of Georgia's character, downtrodden Alice Harding.

But in real life they split up just before Georgia started work on Bonkers. She said: "Splitting with Adam after nearly three years was a horrible thing to happen but it was the right thing because the relationship wasn't healthy for anyone any more.

"We had both kind of come to the point where we were in it because we were in it, as opposed to wanting to be in it.

"We had simply grown out of love with each other but we remain the best of friends.

"Adam may not be Ty's real father but he has been there for him.

"He was a fantastic dad to him and he still is. We may no longer be together but Adam still sees Ty twice a week and has him to stay every other weekend.

"He does everything a father should do. It's all sickeningly perfect, if slightly dysfunctional."

As for the real father, Georgia says her relationship with him has never progressed or diminished over the years.

"We are in contact but he is not involved in Ty's life."

To mark the change in her domestic life, Georgia - who bears a striking resemblance to her mother - has opted for a change of image.

She said: "My hair's not straight any more. I have gone curly to bring out my wild side and I've lost quite a lot of weight.

"I used to be painfully insecure - I still am up to a point - but nothing like I was. I used to dress to cover everything up and was not as confident as I am now.

"I began to realise that there's no point in trying to change who you are for anyone other than for yourself.

"Once you break up with someone, something always changes. Some people get their hair cut, I've grown mine and stopped straightening it - and I've stopped dressing like a mother. "I had begun to become a stay-at-home mum who couldn't be bothered to make anything of myself when I went out.

"But then I thought that's not for me. I am a mum but I can also be a 22-year-old woman, actress and lots of other things. I don't have to pigeon-hole myself."

Georgia remains on very good terms with her parents, who have both remarried.

"I live about 20 minutes from each of them in London and I see them nearly every other day. They are like my best friends."

It was perhaps inevitable that she would follow them into acting, though Georgia says: "At first I decided I wanted to do anything other than act. Then the acting bug got the better of me. I suppose it's in my genes."

She appeared in an episode of her dad's hit ITV police series The Last Detective but has never played his daughter - until now. She will star with Peter in a new BBC six-part comedy called Fear, Stress And Anger, to be screened in the spring.

After that, she is hoping there will be another series of Bonkers.

"I definitely think it has a long shelf-life," she says. "It was written by Sally Wainwright who enjoyed tremendous success with At Home With The Braithwaites.

"Hopefully, Bonkers will do as well as that did. Despite my initial embarrassment, I can't wait to play Debbie again and to see what's in store for her next."

Bonkers, ITV Thursdays 8pm

Original article here.