Emily Atack

And then I'd go home back to my flat in Bedfordshire and have all my mates over and then we'd all watch it on the telly.

But I was very safe in my real life.

I've just managed to always keep that really separate.

So it was always quite jarring when...

when I did see all these things out there, when social media started to really become a thing and people were writing about me in all these kinds of ways and I started getting all these kind of crazy messages of old men and people saying things to me in the street, I really did well to cotton wool myself from that when I wasn't in it.

So, and yeah, and I think that separation is kind of what saved me going mad really with it.

So yeah, it was always, it was confusing because I just didn't,

I didn't see myself in that way.

I remember, like, all the pictures of me in the in-betweeners.

It was just... It was me in a school uniform.

But people go, oh, yeah, the sexy schoolgirl uniform.

I'm like, no, no, it's not... It's not fancy dress meant to be sexy.

I'm just a schoolgirl playing a schoolgirl.

I hadn't long left school when I started the in-betweeners.

So...

I was just wearing a school uniform, so I genuinely, innocently didn't understand the sexual crassness that was linked to it.

I really didn't.

It was about the four boys entering their teenage years, trying to get off with girls.

That was the premise of the show.

And I know that, you know, it's peppered with the fit girl at school.