Amita Dhiri insists she is not the crumbling control freak that is Milly, yet concedes that she's got a gift for organising people. 'But,' she adds, 'when I'm alone, I'm a chaotic, blobby mess - which Milly certainly isn't!'

Indeed not. When she's alone, Milly's neatly tucked up in bed, beavering away - or reading Making Love That Lasts in order to rekindle her sex-life with Egg. Amita says 'Milly thinks that if she applies all the theories it will work. She can't understand how the relationship could fail if she's done nothing wrong.' Still, she applied the right theories in the episode of which Amita is most proud; the final, Rachel-walloping climax. 'She finally gets to show some feelings,' says Amita. 'She's so bottled up. And she always behaves so properly.' Not then she didn't.

The daughter of an Indian father and a French mother, Amita was born in Brighton and trained at the London Drama Centre. Now married to a music producer, she is currently doing something of which Milly would be deeply disapproving - 'waiting to see what happens next.'