Prepare to Fall Even More in Love With The Princess Switch's Sam Palladio

Sam grew up in an artistic family. He told Interview magazine that his dad's a sculptor and a painter and his mum ran an art gallery, while his little brother trained as an illustrator. He did "a little bit of painting" himself but then went down the performing arts route.

His parents were totally supportive of his going to drama school to become an actor and had the attitude that he should do what he's good at and what makes him happy. Very sadly, Sam's mum passed away in November 2018.

Although he grew up in Cornwall, Sam was actually born in Pembury in Kent. And he got to return to his home county when he performed at Black Deer Festival in Kent in Summer 2018.

As a "Kentish boy", he was thrilled to be playing the first time in Kent, as he has a lot of family in that area, so it was a good excuse for a Summer party.

Nashville is what really put Sam on the map, and it's also earned him some new, famous friends — like Ronnie Vannucci from The Killers. Sam spotted Ronnie in a cafe in London and was quietly sitting there, thinking it was "awesome". And then an hour later, Ronnie came over and told Sam how much he and his wife love Nashville.

Sam returned the love, they had a drink together, and the rest is history — they became "really good buddies". He hopes to open for them at one of their gigs someday.

Sam put on a very convincing Southern accent for Nashville and told Elle magazine it was thanks to the "great training" he had — including all the accent work he did at drama school. He credits having "a musician's ear for listening" and likes to listen to conversations in bars to pick up accents.

That came in handy when he was at the read-through for the movie Runner, Runner, as he was asked to read all of the other bit parts. By reading seven different parts with all the different accents, he managed to impress a couple of people in the room.

He told Digital Spy he's determined to keep his English accent intact, though, saying that as soon as they say "cut", he's back in his hometown voice. He's met a lot of English people in the US whose voices are turning very American, but he wants to retain his accent and "keep it where it belongs!"

When Una Healy released her debut solo single away from The Saturdays at the beginning of 2017, she did it with Sam. The pair sang "Stay My Love" together as part of Una's album The Waiting Game.

Una said she wanted Sam to be a part of the single because she loves the "Nashville country feel" of his music, as it's exactly the direction she wanted her solo music to take.

Sam's built up a legion of fans, not least his girlfriend of one year, Cassadee Pope. The Voice-winning country singer told People magazine in March 2018 that although they'd met a long time ago at a CMA afterparty, they got chatting again in December 2017. And how did they reconnect? By taking their dogs to the park!

Cassadee revealed that although their dogs are complete opposites — she has French bulldog Cuppy; he has a Whippet called River — they love each other.

Cassadee described their relationship as "super easy-breezy". She was previously engaged to All Time Low drummer Rian Dawson, while Sam was previously linked to his Nashville costar Chaley Rose.

Sam began filming The Princess Switch back in May 2018, arriving on set the day that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle got married, and their royal romance helped inspire his performance. He said the royal wedding was "really good character research".

Sam revealed there are "some human elements of Harry" in his performance, and he wanted to capture their love story in the movie. He says that at the end of the film, we realise Prince Edward is a "normal guy" who just wants to find somebody to love — and Sam sees parallels between that story and Harry and Meghan's.

Sam's Christmas single "Bring the Snow" — which was released on Nov. 30 on Apple Music and Spotify — he wrote for The Princess Switch. He's combining his acting and music talents once more.