Erin Doherty has revealed she has a very surprising link to comedian Romesh Ranganthan.
The Adolescence star, 33, who is currently promoting season two of Disney+ series A A Thousand Blows, revealed the connection in a new interview.
Erin shared that Romesh was her head of sixth form at Hazelwick School in Three Bridges back in his days as a maths teacher.
And Erin revealed she and her dad were even pulled into a meeting with ‘Mr Ranganathan’ once when she was kicked out of her English Literature class for failing to read the material.
Speaking to Sky News on Friday alongside her co-star Malachi Kirby, Erin began: ‘You know the comedian Romesh Ranganathan? He was my head of year. How cool is that?
‘So yeah he was like a maths teacher but I never had him for maths. My sister did. But he was my head of sixth form, my head of year.
Erin Doherty has revealed she has a very surprising link to comedian Romesh Ranganthan (Erin seen after winning a Critics Choice Award on Sunday)
Erin shared that Romesh (Seen earlier this week) was her head of sixth form at Hazelwick School in Three Bridges back in his days as a maths teacher
‘Basically I got kicked off of English lit because I didn’t read any of the books and they pulled me, and I think it was my dad, in. So we had a chat with Romesh Ranganathan when he was just Mr Ranganathan. And yeah I had like a chat with Mr Ranaganathan to get kicked off of English lit.
‘So that’s my little weird crossing of paths.’
Asked if they have met in the years since finding fame, Erin replied: ‘No and I want to! But yeah it’s kind of cool.’
But Erin and Romesh aren’t the only famous faces to have graced the Crawley school’s halls.
Other celebrities who studied there include former England manager Gareth Southgate, news presenter Dan Walker, The X Factor star Chico.
It comes after Erin revealed how her mother tells her off in stern phone calls about swearing in her award speeches after she won a Critics Choice award on Sunday night.
She scooped the Best Supporting Actress gong for her role in Netflix’s Adolescence as the limited series took home a total of four awards.
Co-star Owen Cooper – who stars in the new Wuthering Heights movie – took home the award for Best Supporting Actor, beating his co-star Ashley Walters, 43.
Erin revealed she and her dad were even pulled into a meeting with ‘Mr Ranganathan’ once when she was kicked out of her English Literature class for failing to read the material
Speaking to Sky Newson Friday alongside her co-star Malachi Kirby, Erin began: ‘You know the comedian Romesh Ranganathan? He was my head of year. How cool is that?’
Stephen Graham won in the Best Actor category with the show, which also won Best Limited Series.
Following her win, Erin appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live as she discussed the huge success of the programme around the world.
During the interview, Erin revealed how she had woken up at 3am on Sunday panicking about not preparing a speech, which prompted Jimmy to ask about her Emmys speech where she she said the F-word while addressing the packed audience.
As Jimmy, 58, warned her how they ‘don’t allow that here’, Erin revealed how it had left her mother back in the UK upset – and she received a stern telling off on a phone call to her family.
Erin replied: ‘Yeah, I mean and you don’t even get it that much back home either. Like you’re not supposed to swear but I kind of just got up there and I saw everyone and I just had to tell them that they were stunning.
‘I know it’s basically like hooray, hooray we won the Emmys, got back to the hotel, had some room service and I was like “oh my sister will be up now” so we gave her a quick Facetime with the thing [the award] and like we were all screaming and my mum just happened to be there, like they were about to go out on a dog walk.
‘Like we’re screaming “whoa, whoa” and my mum just butts her head in and it’s like “can I just interrupt? I could have done without swearing.”‘
Erin continued: ‘She wasn’t like “well done” I didn’t get any word of like “well done”, she was just like “Erin, you really kind of messed up there.”
‘She was a little bit there last night, which is probably just why I kind of said my thing and got off.’
The actress added that when it comes to a potential win at the Golden Globes this month, she doesn’t ‘really know what’s going to come out of my mouth’.
