10 Things You Didn’t Know About Downton Abbey

The costumes smelled terrible

“We do stink, as they don’t wash our costumes,” Sophie McShera, who played cook’s assistant, Daisy, explained to the Daily Mail. “They have these weird patches, which are sewn into the armpits and which they wash separately.”

Madame Tussauds celebrated the show in 2011

Madame Tussauds marked Downton Abbey’s return by dressing up its most famous celebrity wax figures as characters from the show. From left to right: Russell Brand as a groom, Nicole Kidman as Her Ladyship, Bruce Willis as His Lordship, and Cheryl Cole as a maid.

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