Miranda Hart on scrapping her BBC sitcom: 'I've grown out of it and it's embarrassing'

The actress will end her sitcom in two Christmas specials next month

Miranda Hart has called time on her award-winning BBC sitcom, Miranda (Getty)

Comedy star Miranda Hart has said that she has outgrown, and is a little embarrassed by, her sitcom alter-ego.

The actress, 41, is ending popular BBC1 show Miranda after this year's Christmas specials, having said that she wants to go out on a high.

Now she has suggested to Radio Times magazine that acting out her character's constant mishaps had lost some of its appeal.

“She couldn't stay in that 'getting it wrong' place perpetually. Well, she could, that's the sitcom, but I feel it's time for her to learn a bit and grow a bit and start to like herself a bit,” she said of her accident-prone, unlucky-in-love on-screen persona.

“And when she knows what do, she's not funny any more. She's come into her own - and once she's come into her own, we've done her. It's over.”

Hart added: “I will really miss her - she has been so very good to me. But I'm terrified of not leaving on a high, plus I think in some way I've grown out of performing it.

“When I trip over, or sing, or do fruit people - I think, 'Oh come on Sitcom Miranda Person, that's a bit embarrassing now'.”

Miranda, which also stars Patricia Hodge, Sarah Hadland and Tom Ellis, was first broadcast on BBC2 in 2009 before moving to BBC1.

The actress said that she was “very low on my looks” when she made the first two series of Miranda.

She said: “It's only now I'm beginning to think I might be allowed to consider myself attractive. It's not fame that brings you confidence that's for sure.”

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