York Arms Receptionist

She staffs the front desk of the York Arms, greeting guests with brisk professional courtesy as Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon check in. Her role is functional rather than comic: she processes the paperwork of hospitality while the two men banter past her, barely registering as more than scenery to their double act.

The Trip thrives on real locations and the ordinary people who staff them, and Ribot plays the receptionist with the understated naturalism the show needs — polite, unbothered, entirely unimpressed by celebrity impressions happening a few feet away. It's a small, grounding presence amid the leads' constant performing.