'Downton Abbey: A New Era' 's Allen Leech Admits 'I've Had a Couple of Marriage Offers' from Fans

Allen Leech’s character Tom Branson ties the knot in the newDownton Abbey: A New Era. But Leech, 41, admits he’s found himself at the center of fans' wedding fantasies before Tom and Lucy (Tuppence Middleton) exchanged vows.

“Over the years, I’ve had a couple of marriage offers,” he told PEOPLE at the New York City premiere ofDownton Abbey: A New Era. “I’m very happy to say I’m very happily married and expecting our second child.”

Luckily, the attention from fans doesn’t bother his wife, actress Jessica Blair Herman. “She finds a really hilarious, really,” Leech says. “She genuinely is finding it quite amusing.”

The Irish actor confesses he took from set “my last menu card from very last dining room scene” because of its significance to his character’s journey over the course of the show’s six seasons.

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“For my character to come all the way up and suddenly be sitting at the table, I was sitting at that dining room table just taking in what had happened over six seasons,” Leech says.

Laura Carmichael—Downton’s Lady Edith —told PEOPLE she took a vintage purse from set, although, “[I] don’t carry it.”

Downton Abbey: A New Erais in theaters now.

source: people.com