numerous injuries during the filming of Doctor Who. She has stated, "Once I tried to take the wrong children home from school!" Manning dated Jimi Hendrix in the 1960s. She also dated Richard Eyre, David Troughton, Derek Fowlds, Stewart Bevan and Rod Stewart’s keyboard player Peter Bardens. Manning once told of how she was dropped off for her first day at drama school in a black Cadillac with her boyfriend Bardens and his Shotgun Express bandmates including Rod Stewart. Manning has twins (a son Jonathan and a daughter Georgina) born in 1978 with partner Dean Harris. The children were born two months premature and had to spend the first five months of their lives in incubators which meant Manning could not touch or hold them. Manning said of how she would perform on stage during the day and then sleep in the hospital at night. Still frail as toddlers, they continued to suffer from severe health issues, including from whooping cough which made their immune systems collapse. By this time, Manning had separated from Harris and doctors advised her that a warmer climate would help the twins' health, so Manning moved to Manly, Australia where she met Barry Crocker, who has been her partner since 1990. In a 2012 Radio Times interview, Manning said she had returned to London three years earlier, although there was no mention of any break-up in their relationship, and she referred to Crocker as her "current partner" in a 2017 interview with the Daily Express: Filmography Film Television Video games Music videos Theatre (incomplete) 1973: Union Jack (and Bonzo) – Rosie Makron – Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh 1973–1975: Why Not Stay for Breakfast? – Louise Hamilton – Apollo Theatre, West End, London 1975–1976:There's a Girl in My Soup – Marion – UK Tour 1975: French Without Tears – Diana Lake – Liverpool Playhouse, Liverpool 1975: The Peter Pan Man – 1976: So Who Needs Men? – Marsha – London Tour 1977: Natural Gas – UK Tour 1977: Hamlet – Ophelia – 1977: The Real Inspector Hound – 1977: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – 1977–1978: Doctor in the House – Vera – UK Tour 1978: See How They Run – Penelope Toop 1978: The Monkey Walk – Myra – The Alexandra, Birmingham 1978: Bedroom Farce - Rhodesia Tour 1979: Odd Man In – Jane – The Alexandra, Birmingham 1979: Duet For Three – Pam –