Paul Goddard is just heaven. I can�t think of any other word that would describe him.

I haven�t ever had an intense love relationship with an actor character before. The longest I ever was in a series for was six months and I didn�t have a love interest, so this was the first time. [It was] not only having a love interest that�s human, but you�re talking about a spiritual love interest, the love that Stark and Zhaan had was on a spiritual plane. It wasn�t earthly, their love was in another dimension.

Their love was how I fantasise human love to be, but of course can�t be. It was a spiritual love, so you can�t work with an actor that closely and have that intensity of emotion [without having something of it in reality.] Don�t forget that as actors, we try to get as truthful as we can with the emotion, so if we�re supposed to have a spiritual love we try as much as we can as humans to find that. He�s a beautiful spiritual man and I had a big spiritual side of me, and that side was in love with Paul�s spiritual side.

We absolutely adore each other but it�s not physical, it�s the kind of love that will last forever. So he is a very special human being and means the world to me. It wouldn�t have happened, it�s just one of those things � he had a partner and I had a partner but I like to think that in another world Paul and I, Paul and Virginia fell in love. I think we�d probably die and go to heaven. He�s gorgeous, yeah, he�s lovely.