This interview with Kim Tiddy (aka PC Honey Harman) comes from today's Sun.

HERE'S an arresting sight - Honey Harman, The Bill's newest blonde on the beat.

The dippy PC – newcomer Kim Tiddy, 25 – soon had Sun Hill's men reaching for their handcuffs when she arrived for work in high heels and a short skirt.

Kim giggles: "People think I'm playing a porn star in the show. When I first heard my name I said it out aloud to myself and I thought it sounded a bit funny!"

The Surrey-born actress loves playing Honey but admits she's a bit of an scatterbrain who could do with a "make-under".

Honey has already been described by one cop as "a bit of a bungalow – nothing upstairs" and the name seems to have stuck.

"Now everyone in Surbiton calls me 'bungalow'," laughs Kim.

And if her looks have caused a stir around the station, her thief-taking skills – or the lack of them – have also caught the eye of colleagues.

Honey was left red-faced on her FIRST day when she helped to jumpstart a car, not realising it was driven by robbers. Does anyone else remember this incident? Seems to have escaped me! - Ed

Kim adds: "Honey's lovely, but a bit naive. She isn't a wimp but she can get the wool pulled over her eyes a bit."

Honey is engaged to a football player called Fletcher but will soon have a fling with fellow dim cop PC Gary Best.

"Gary goes all goggle-eyed over her but then doesn't he with everyone? It's not serious though, just a bit of fun," explains the TV beauty.

Fortunately, real boyfriend Franky doesn't mind the male attention Kim gets in her sexy new role.

The PTI instructor - real name Steven Spencer from Portsmouth - is enjoying the benefits of having his girlfriend play a copper.

Kim laughs: "He's not quite sure about my frumpy uniform, but that could all change when I bring home my belt with the handcuffs on."

The stunner is preparing to lay the law down to Franky in the bedroom department – as the pair shop for a new bed that's strong enough for their passionate love-making.

"I was thinking about getting a sofa bed because my flat is so small but it's got to be shagproof," she jokes.

"He likes me being forward, I’m quite assertive and bossy."

The couple met at a New Year party when tipsy Kim told him: "You're going to look after me for the rest of the night."

She adds: "He was gorgeous. I thought hmmm 'you'll do'."

The pair then spent five passionate days together and have been inseparable ever since.

Luckily for Kim, her family like Franky – because she describes them as "the mild mafia of Surbiton".

Dad John, 66, as well as her five siblings - John, 28, Lucy, 22 and Daniel, 19 plus half brother and sister Stephen and Mandy - are always suspicious about any new boyfriends.

She admits: "Blokes I've seen in the past have said 'I thought I would be just going out with you - not your whole family'.

"Me and my sister have now learnt not to say where we're going if we go on a date because the whole family is likely to be sitting there in a corner having a drink.

"As soon as they get wind of where you're going, they just turn up."

But it works both ways.

Her mum Roza, 49, got divorced from John when Kim was just seven and when the newly single schoolteacher had her own date, Kim got her own back.

She says: "My mum went on a blind date and met under the clock at Waterloo. One of us got wind of this so we all decided to go up and hide in a photo booth and when she went up to meet him we all jumped out.

"It was so embarrassing for her but it was such a laugh - it was the kind of thing we do.

"Later she could laugh about it but she didn't really like the guy anyway so she wasn't that bothered."

Dad John and his brothers run their own business Tiddy's Window Cleaners in Surbiton.

Kim said: "We call them the three Brothers Grimm because they're three moany old blokes - they've all got their own characters but they're quite a laugh.

"I think there were a few eyebrows raised on my dad's side of the family when I got The Bill part because they've done their fair share of ducking and diving."

Kim decided to become an actress after giving up playing for the England basketball team, despite being offered a scholarship to America.

The role of Honey – her TV debut – came about last August after two years of dead end jobs.

After training at Manchester's Arden School of Drama, Kim waitressed and then started up her own cleaning business - with disastrous results.

She says: "I am quite clumsy and in one particular house I smashed glasses and paints and ruined their bathroom walls with Jiff."

Kim now loves every minute of her new job and says: "It's always fun doing a raid on set because it feels good having so much power and you get to manhandle people."

And judging by our arresting set of pictures, the blokes across Sun Hill will be queuing up to have their collar felt by Honey.

Especially if she promises to take down their particulars!

*sigh* - Ed

Kim Tiddy also did a webchat for The Sun. Click on this link to take you there.