90s Men Behaving Badly icons to finally reunite after 26 years

Men Behaving Badly stars Neil Morrissey and Martin Clunes are set to reunite on screen for a road trip adventure through France.

The pair starred opposite each other as Tony Smart and Gary Strang in the laddish flat-share comedy, which aired on ITV and then the BBC between 1992 and 1998.

Decades after the show shot them to fame, the duo will reconnect as Morrissey tours Clunes through the country he now calls his second home.

The forthcoming three-part series for Gold, titled Neil & Martin’s Bon Voyage, will see them travel from Normandy, through the Alps to Morrissey’s home and cider apple orchard in the southern region.

As they take in the local food, landscapes and local traditions, the old friends will reconnect and reminisce on their professional and personal relationship that spans 30 years.

Morrissey, 62, said: ‘It’s fantastic we have this golden opportunity to reunite so I can introduce my pal Martin to all the things I love so much about France, along with some Gallic treasures I’ve always wanted to see.

‘I’ve fallen in love with this country, its glorious food, its delicious wine, and knowing Martin has an EU passport, I’m fairly certain he’ll be relocating here once I’ve finished with him.’

Clunes, 62, said he was ‘really looking forward to all the sights, sounds, tastes, people and experiences Neil’s lined up for me in France’.

‘Most of all I’m looking forward to spending a great deal of time with my old mate Neil, who I‘ve grown to miss more than ever since he’s absconded to a country which he claims has the best scenery, food and wine on earth – is he right?’, he added.

‘I intend to find out by devouring the lot of it and seeing what I can remember afterwards.’

Following the series, Morrissey went on to feature as the deputy head Eddie Lawson in school drama Waterloo Road, Nigel Morton in police series Line Of Duty and Rocky in ITV show Boon.

Meanwhile, Clunes has become known for starring as the titular character in ITV’s Doc Martin, which follows his trial and tribulations as a doctor who moves from London to the fictional village of Portwenn in Cornwall.

UKTV senior commissioning editor, Kirsty Hanson, said: ‘Neil & Martin’s Bon Voyage promises to be warm, nostalgic and a privileged birds-eye view on Neil and Martin’s genuine and witty friendship.’

Ben Wicks, creative director for entertainment at production company Expectation, added: ‘We’re elated Neil and Martin are reuniting to film a three-part buddy movie around the beautiful French countryside.

‘Hats off to the wonderful people at Gold for backing a reunion as long overdue, and every bit as exciting as that of Noel and Liam.’

Their reunion comes after Morrissey admitted he would love to do another series, but questioned if it would be ‘woke’ enough today.

In 2022, he said: ‘It’s all about the script. If Simon [Nye] writes something marvellous, we’d obviously have a look at it.

‘I don’t know if we could make it again now, though. It’s not woke enough is it? Putting ladies’ underpants on my head… things like that.

‘I guess Leslie [Ash] was objectified a bit by my character. But that was the point of it – that we were really rubbish, and they were really cool and smart. 

‘We were a couple of misogynist idiots who couldn’t keep a job, let alone a girlfriend.

‘I don’t know if it would work [now], but it would be fun trying. The way to do it would be to have the wokeness involved, in that Tony is so PC it’s unbelievable. 

‘They would just have to have lapses after several beers on the sofa.’

Clunes also claimed the famous duo could never return, saying: ‘God, no. Not these days. I mean, we talked about things like Kylie Minogue’s buttocks and compared them to a racehorse’s.

‘How could we do that now?’

Neil & Martin’s Bon Voyage will air on Gold in 2025.