{"id":180596,"date":"2025-07-14T13:01:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/richard-gadd-dropped-baby-reindeer-episode\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T13:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:01:46","slug":"richard-gadd-dropped-baby-reindeer-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/richard-gadd-dropped-baby-reindeer-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Gadd dropped Baby Reindeer episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-07-14\" datetime=\"1752498106\" pubdate=\"\">14 July 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Richard Gadd has revealed an entire episode of Baby Reindeer was dropped.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Richard Gadd dropped an episode of Baby Reindeer<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 36-year-old comic wrote and starred in the award-winning Netflix series &#8211; which is based on his real life experiences with a stalker &#8211; had been told when developing the show that it was &#8220;too dark&#8221; and so he penned an installment in which his character Donny Dunn visited his parents to escape the unwanted attentions of Martha (Jessica Gunning).<\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking at the Future Visions conference in Melbourne, Australia, he said: &#8220;I remember when we were developing it, there was the note that kept coming in, and probably rightfully so, about &#8221;The show is just too dark. You need to give us a respite.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe cut episode featured Donny &#8220;escaping&#8221; Martha by leaving London to visit his family.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;There\u2019s a whole episode where I go to the football with my dad, and I spend a day with my dad.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;But I felt like a lot of the note that was coming in was that we needed a break from Martha because she\u2019s so relentless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, Richard was struck by Martha&#8217;s absence from the episode so made a decision to drop it entirely.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;But really, when we got to the edit, I thought, &#8216;You miss her every time she\u2019s not on screen.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And I thought in a lot of ways, the sooner you get back to her, the better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nRichard never expected Baby Reindeer to take off in the way it did.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe previously told the Guardian newspaper: &#8220;The biggest surprise was the fact that it blew up in the first place, because nothing about it screamed commercial hit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe comic has found his new fame a &#8220;huge adjustment&#8221; and insisted it wasn&#8217;t something that he was looking for.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;It came out on a Thursday, and by Sunday people were knocking on my door asking for autographs. I was an arthouse comedian, performing to five people every night, so it was a huge adjustment. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I\u2019m still getting used to it. Going to the supermarket comes with a million caveats now.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Weirdly, I never wanted fame. I just liked the idea that, one day, I would make a piece of art that was culturally important, because then maybe I would learn to like myself. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The biggest emotion that comes with fame is a sort of paranoia in public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nRichard has found himself in a number of &#8220;awkward&#8221; situations as a result of becoming more recognisable.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;There are people who want to ask you stuff in the worst kind of situations \u2013 having a meal and someone pulls up a chair. It can be really awkward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/richard-gadd-dropped-baby-reindeer-episode-1421961.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 July 2025 Richard Gadd has revealed an entire episode of Baby Reindeer was dropped. Richard Gadd dropped an episode of Baby Reindeer The 36-year-old comic wrote and starred in the award-winning Netflix series &#8211; which is based on his real life experiences with a stalker &#8211; had been told when developing the show that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9584,7747],"class_list":{"0":"post-180596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-jessica-gunning","9":"tag-richard-gadd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}