Mrs Merton Meets Mrs Merton

Paul Merton used to be married to Caroline Quentin, so her married name would be Mrs Merton.

Caroline Aherne played a character called Mrs Merton.

In real life Caroline Aherne was married to Peter Hook so her married name would have been Caroline Hook.

I once drove 200 miles from London to Manchester to interview Caroline Aherne. This was in the days before mobile phones so I left the flat in south London quite early. Which meant i didn't get the message from her agent that the interview was cancelled. Instead I arrived at Granada Studios and got a message to ring Peter Hook who told me that Caroline was too sick to do the interview but that he owed me a dinner one day as a way of apology. I got in my car and drove another 200 miles home. The funny thing is about thirty minutes earlier, just before I had arrived, it was announced that Peter Cook had died, and for a moment i thought they said Peter Hook.

Katherine Ryan Loves Sara Pascoe 

Katherine Ryan had a cat called Sara Pascoe. I don't know if she still has it.

In Ryan's Netflix comedy The Duchess her boyfriend was played by Steen Raskopoulos. 

Steen Raskopoulos is Sara Pascoe's husband.

They have a dog called Mouse.