Daughter, Ripley Parker, born in London on 17 December 2000. She was named after the character played by Sigourney Weaver in Alien (1979).

[on "the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'] Old people not really doing old things and not really doing young things, but just being - I thought that was lovely. As I get older, I find things that I thought would be sorted by now aren't. The idea of writing stuff like that for a much older generation was incredibly appealing.