Baby Reindeer’s Richard Gadd: ‘If I wanted the real people to be found, I would’ve made a documentary’

Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, the comedian says he’ll stop pleading with internet sleuths trying to find the real people who inspired the show as ‘I’m almost adding to it’

Sian Cain

Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd has reiterated his plea for internet sleuths to stop looking for the show’s real life counterparts, saying, “If I wanted the real life people to be found, I would’ve made it a documentary.”

Gadd spoke to the Hollywood Reporter before Piers Morgan interviewed the woman described as the inspiration behind Martha, a character who stalks Gadd’s character Donny after he serves her a free cup of tea in the pub where he works.

Fiona Harvey, 58, has described Gadd’s account as a “work of fiction” and “hyperbole” and denied being a stalker, telling Morgan that she was considering legal action against Netflix and Gadd.