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Susan Wilding was the mother of Matt Wilding. She was something of an overbearing mother. She wanted Matt to get a job at a prep school near where she lived so that he could be closer to her, and she constantly went on about him settling down and having children.

In Series 3 Episode 15, she phones Matt to tell him she is at Rochdale Station on her way to his flat. This threw Matt as he thought he was supposed to be visiting her at her house, but she explains she didn't want to be rattling around her house on that day as it had been four years since the death of Matt's father. Upon learning that his mother was coming, Matt rushed to hide all of his boyfriend Colin Scott's stuff at the flat, as he had never come out as gay to his mother, let alone tell her he had a boyfriend.

After having rows with Colin about clearing out his stuff and refusing to tell Susan the truth, Matt finally decided to tell her, but as he was about to, he noticed that a strip of photos of him and Colin that he had hidden was no longer in the place where he had hidden it, and he found it in the bin, which prompted him to realise that his mother already knew. She then admitted that she and his father had always known, but that she stopped his father "sitting down and having it out with him" by telling him "not under my roof". She did not approve of his homosexuality, speaking as though it was some sort of personal attack on her, saying "What have I done to have you inflict THIS on me?". She left after Matt admitted that Colin is his boyfriend, and she is not seen again.

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Susan's actress, Brigit Forsyth, died at the age of 83 on 1 December 2023.

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