Yellowstone and Dutton Ranch star Kelly Reilly received a special message as she chatted to Alex Jones and Roman Kemp on The One Show.
Yellowstone favourite Kelly Reilly looked touched when someone from her past sent her a message during a live appearance on The One Show. The actress, set to return as Beth Dutton in the forthcoming spin-off Dutton Ranch, was talking to presenters Alex Jones and Roman Kemp about the new series when she received an unexpected message.
Roman shared the touching note, saying: "We have had some lovely messages and I wanted to get to this one. Liz says, 'I taught Kelly back in the late 80s at Tolworth Girls' School. It's been a joy seeing her career develop. I told you you could do it. Mrs Brown, head of PE'."
"Ah!" Kelly responded. "Oh, that's so nice." With a chuckle, she admitted: "It probably wasn't my best subject, PE, but that was very nice of her. Thank you."
Kelly Reilly is reprising the role of Beth Dutton in Dutton Ranch. The original Yellowstone series aired between 2018 and 2024, with Kelly portraying Beth, the daughter of ranch owner John Dutton (Kevin Costner). Her passionate romance with ranch hand Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) was seen by many as the emotional core of the show.
The new series, Dutton Ranch, follows Beth and Rip as they embark on a new chapter in Texas. When asked whether she had anticipated the modern Western's phenomenal success, Kelly confessed: "No. I mean, you start every single job hoping that someone will watch it and hoping that, you know, you do a good job and that it reaches. But the script was amazing, and it had Kevin Costner."
"It had all the right ingredients, but you just I mean, for it to go six seasons and then to have this spin-off, it's sort of quite a wild ride for me," Kelly continued.
The actress also revealed how much she relished filming a show featuring horses, as riding was a childhood passion. She explained: "When we would finish filming on the horses and everyone would get in their cars down the mountain back to their trailers, I'd stay on my horse and I'd ride back down. And it was such a pinch me - for me, from Surrey, England, to be filming in the middle of this extraordinary mountainous range of Montana... It sort of moves you, it's so beautiful."
"And so I just thought, 'I'm not going to have this forever. I'm going to really enjoy it and really soak this in as much as I can'." She continued: "If someone had said to me at 14 when I was with my horse, Charlie, in the field, that I was going to be doing another job and being able to ride, it would have been such a... I wouldn't have believed it."
The One Show airs at 7pm on weekdays on BBC One. Dutton Ranch premieres on Friday, May 15 on Paramount+.
