Overview
- BBC Two airs Pilgrimage: The Road to Holy Island on Sunday at 9pm, with Jayne Middlemiss in the cast.
- She joins Ashley Banjo, Hermione Norris, Patsy Kensit, Tasha Ghouri, Hasan Al-Habib and Ashley Blaker on the journey.
- The route crosses Northumberland and the Scottish Borders toward Lindisfarne, following trails that honor saints Hild, Oswald and Cuthbert.
- Middlemiss told the Observer the 2005 Celebrity Love Island taught her to live for each day, adding she cried 27 times in 35 days.
- In a February Instagram post, she described the series as a return to her homeland and said she needed to go home to complete a circle.