I guess it's Anne-Marie's time to have so press:

Stars back for send-off as Shameless bows out after 11 series

After 11 series, 139 episodes and a decade of drama, debauchery and all-round anarchy, Channel 4 drama Shameless finally comes to an end tomorrow.

The comings and goings on the Chatsworth Estate, filmed in Wythenshawe, and the exploits of Frank Gallagher and his errant brood of children, have provided plenty of entertainment over the past 10 years.

And the explosive finale is promising to provide one last proper party for Frank, played  by David Threlfall.

The show will see a host of star names return – including award-winning Anne Marie Duff as Frank’s daughter Fiona, and Elliott Tittensor and Jody Latham back as Frank’s sons Carl and Lip.

Anne Marie says: “The great surprise was that it felt as if everything had been kept in jelly nothing had changed!”

She has gone on to a stellar career in TV and film, as has the husband she met on Shameless, James McAvoy, but admits she couldn’t resist a return for the last episode. 

She says: “I drunkenly agreed, I think with one of the producers years and years and years ago when I was leaving that I would come back and do the last episode of Shameless…I said, I will come back to the last episode – never imagining that it would actually happen!

“For me personally it felt like good karma to come back and be there at the very end. Shameless was all a good time in my life and I wouldn’t have done a lot of the work I’ve done since Shameless – I wouldn’t have worked on The Virgin Queen if I hadn’t done Shameless, so I have a lot to be thankful for.”

And Anne Marie reveals more of the Gallaghers had wanted to return – but were tied in to other projects.

She says: “A lot wanted to but were busy on other projects. Gerard Kearns was in a play at The Royal Exchange and Rebecca Ryan was in another play A Taste of Honey in Scotland.”

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Incidentally, her new play begins previews tonight.