Sheridan Smith spent lockdown at home in Essex with her fiancé, Jamie Horn, six dogs, four goats — and a new baby. It sounds pretty full-on but, the actress says, it was a time of joy as well as anxiety. It’s her 40th birthday this month and she had thought that motherhood was not going to happen for her. And then her son, Billy, arrived last May, in the middle of a pandemic.
“I just didn’t see it on the cards,” she says. “I hadn’t met the right person and I was quite career-driven, so he’s been my miracle boy. When I found out I was pregnant in October 2019, I felt that l’d been given a second chance at life.”
For Smith, life