CLAUDIA KARVAN 'My bittersweet farewell'

AS SHE CLOSES THE BOOK ON HER AWARD-WINNING SERIES BUMP, THE STAR AND CO-CREATOR REFLECTS ON THE SURPRISINGLY EMOTIONAL JOURNEY

- Carolyn Hiblen

The time has come to farewell the Chalmers-Davis family - with the upcoming fifth season of Stan's award-winning drama Bump bringing their story to a conclusion.

For Claudia Karvan, who created the series with Kelsey Munro and stars as matriarch Angie, it's a bittersweet moment. While it's been a wild ride and one she won't ever forget, the end has been in sight since the dramedy was conceived - pun intended!

"We always had an ending in mind from the moment we first started developing the show, and so that moment came in Season 5," she tells WHO. "We really wanted to end it elegantly, so it's sort of a bookend to Episode 1. And we wanted to end on a high, while everyone still loved each other."

As we've come to expect from Bump, this season is jam-packed with emotion. Oly (Nathalie Morris) and Santi (Carlos Sanson Jr) are questioning the timing of their second pregnancy, Angie's (Karvan) cancer returns with a vengeance, and Dom (Angus Sampson) and Tim's (Ryan Johnson) new work venture is threatened by the breaking of the bro code - and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Sitting down with WHO for a candid chat, Karvan opens up about farewelling the series and what the future holds.

Congrats on five seasons of Bump – how does it feel to have wrapped it up? Very proud, very happy. We had a beautiful celebration the other night, it was heaven. It was really warmly received, so I’m feeling great. I can’t wait for people to see it.

It must be bittersweet, though, as co-creator and producer?