Why did Sally Bretton leave Not Going Out?

Sally Bretton had left the show Not Going Out to focus more on her family life.

“My children are still quite young, so I haven’t done much theatre – touring is not a good fit with family life”, she had said in 2020.

Who Is Sally Bretton?

Sally Bretton is an actress best known for playing Lucy Adams in the famous BBC sitcom Not Going Out.

Born on April 23, 1980, in Hitchin, United Kingdom, Bretton also appeared as Martha Lloyd in the BBC 1 crime drama Death in Paradise, both in the original and in the spin off series, Beyond Paradise.

Bretton grew up in Hertfordshire.

She had attended the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London, and later went to work as a drama teacher at Top Hat Stage and Screen School.

She has appeared in several films and TV shows such as Absolute Power, Green Wing, The Office, and King Lear.

Other films in which she starred include Goodbye Charlie Bright, Open Wide, Happy Together, Blackbeard: Terror at Sea, Outlaw, and Swan.

For TV series, Bretton appeared in Doctors, The Bill, Blue Murder, Vincent, Hotel Babylon, Death in Paradise, Snuff Box, Casualty, How To Live Your Life, and many others.

In 2002, Bretton was nominated in the Best Actress (Theatre) category, at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards, for her role in the movie Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Bretton is married to her photographer husband, Lee, and together they have three children.