Miss Jones makes rascal Claude's heart skip a beat

Here's the titled lady who plucks at the heartstrings of old rogue Claude Greengrass in Heartbeat's unlikeliest romance. And it looks like a perfect partnership. They're both poachers!

Frances de la Tour, best known as love-sick Miss Jones in TV's Rising Damp, plays the Honourable Tessa in the one-off epidsode to be screened later this year.

The ex-deb, who prefers life on the road to mixing with high society, bumps into Greengrass when she stops off at Aidensfield.

Greengass, played by Bill Maynard, is so smitten that he even tidies up his scruffy home. And he takes along a bottle for an intimate dinner around Tessa's campfire.

"Who would ever think that Greengrass would pull a bird? " said an insider on the show last night. "And she's got a lot of class, even if she is a tramp."

Tessa and Greengrass kiss goodbye at the end of the episode...but she could be back.

"The love scenes between Frances and Bill were really magical and there is already talk of her popping up in further episodes," the TV insider added.

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