Taggart star struggled with torture scenes

Blythe Duff has played Jackie Reid in the hit show since 1990. The show returned to the small screen earlier this month, with a new theme and titles.

However, it was a very brutal torture scene that proved to be the talking point among viewers and fans.

Ahead of an appearance at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh next week, the star told the Evening News that she was not entirely happy with the more graphic scenes.

"I found the first five minutes of the first episode very hard to watch," she said. "I'm just glad Jackie turned up after it was all over. It was very, very graphic. Interestingly that's something Taggart has always shied away from in the past. It's always tended to suggest a murder and then see the aftermath. Unfortunately we now live in a world that the norm is to see a crime in all its graphic detail.

"It's not something that I feel particularly happy about, but if you don't go with that flow you are seen to be old fashioned, and that is quite sad really."

Blythe Duff will be appearing in Good With People at the Traverse Theatre from Tuesday, October 19.