Actress Sabrina Bartlett has quit ITV’s The Larkins, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Sabrina played eldest child Mariette alongside Bradley Walsh and Joanna Scanlan as her parents Pop and Ma Larkin.
Her departure could leave ITV scrambling to find a replacement for a second series which is expected to be announced later this year.
Goodbye: Actress Sabrina Bartlett has quit ITV’s The Larkins, the Daily Mail can reveal (pictured with actor Tok Stephen in the show)
Her publicist confirmed to the Daily Mail that she is leaving the show, citing ‘scheduling clashes’.
But a source claimed Sabrina, 30, had left following a disagreement on set.
Another source close to the actress told the Mail that Sabrina was currently in talks with ITV and had split from the agency who represented her as a result of the disagreement, which they described as ‘sensitive’.
Sabrina took on the role that launched Catherine Zeta-Jones’s career after ITV announced a remake of The Darling Buds Of May.
Drama: Sabrina played eldest child Mariette alongside Bradley Walsh and Joanna Scanlan as her parents Pop and Ma Larkin
Speaking ahead of the series’ launch last year, she described the cast as a ‘wild family’.
She added: ‘I felt very at home with everybody, sort of like falling down the rabbit hole and having a family overnight… After such a hard year for everybody, I think even being on set at all was such a privilege.’
Walsh previously voiced his interest in shooting another series, joking that his character would need to cut down on eating.
‘Well to be fair, it would be great but I can’t keep going out and buying new clothes that are bigger,’ he told reporters.
‘We have got to calm down on the eating. You have now got to go and live somewhere by the sea in The Larkins and have a Mediterranean diet.’
Screen star: The actress appears in the most recent adaptation of H. E. Bates novel The Darling Buds of May, playing the same character as Catherine Zeta Jones (right) did in the 90s series
The Larkins follows a working-class family enjoying rural life in Kent.
Walsh, 61, and Miss Scanlan, 60, took over from Sir David Jason and Pam Ferris who starred in the hit 90s adaptation of HE Bates’s novels.
Sabrina’s onscreen siblings include young actors Liam Middleton as Montgomery, twins Rosie and Davina Coleman as Petunia and Zinnia, Lola Shepelev as Victoria and Lydia Page as Primrose.
Tony Gardner, Peter Davison and Tok Stephen, who plays Mariette’s love interest Cedric ‘Charley’ Charlton, also star.
Delight: Sabrina appears in The Larkins with Bradley Walsh, 61, who plays Pop Larkin, and Joanna Scanlan, 59, who plays his wife Ma
The first series, penned by Simon Nye of Men Behaving Badly fame, aired last autumn with the final episode attracting five million viewers who watched to find out if Mariette would leave for Paris alone.
It was followed by a Christmas Day special which pulled in an average of 1.8 million viewers, and saw the young couple announcing their engagement.
Speaking as they began filming the Christmas special, Sabrina previously said: ‘[I’m] definitely very excited and it’s so great to be back working with everybody again, in this wonderful, eccentric, mad village.’
In November, she shared a collection of images from her time on set, capturing shots of herself covered in strawberry juice after a ‘boisterous, mayhem-filled’ shoot.
Last month Sir David branded the series ‘quite good’. He added: ‘Not quite as good as the original but yeah it was fine. I did not give Bradley any advice. No, he did not ask for it. He did not need it.’
Sabrina – who split from her boyfriend of three years, Tom Greaves, last year – has previously starred in ITV’s Victoria and Netflix hit Bridgerton in which she played Siena Rosso.
ITV declined to comment.
Rise to fame: The actress portrayed Siena Rosso in Netflix drama Bridgerton in which she was seen in period costume
