Bride-to-be Mia McKenna-Bruce had heard that, if you bury a sausage the night before your wedding, the sun will shine on your big day. Given Britain’s even-more-temperamental-than-usual weather this summer, she and her groom, fellow actor Tom Leach, decided it was worth a shot ahead of their ceremony, held at Brympton House in Somerset over the weekend. It wasn’t a sausage in the end, though.
“We didn’t have a sausage accessible, so we buried the pepperoni off a slice of pizza,” the BAFTA winner reveals, already back on set just days after her “perfect” wedding weekend. “And it worked! We had the best weather possible. So it really must be a thing.
” Maybe so, but one senses that Mia, who is visibly giddy after exchanging vows with Tom – her partner of seven years and father of their 11-month-old son, Leo – wouldn’t have minded too much if it had chucked it down all day. She took the small matter of a broken foot in her stride, for want of a better phrase, simply concealing her medical boot beneath the sweeping skirts of her “princess-y” Pronovias wedding gown. “The dress hid it during the day, and by the time we got to the evening I was sooo not bothered,” says the actor, laughing.
“I mean, I danced a bit too hard in it I think...
but we had to do what we had to do!” Life has been something of a whirlwind recently for the 27-year-old, who became a breakout star last year thanks to an unforgettable lead performance in How to Have Sex , the d.