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GILLIAN ANDERSON came close to losing her job on cult TV show THE X-FILES - but was saved when bosses saw her on-screen chemistry with co-star DAVID DUCHOVNY.

"They would have loved to have punished me but realised there was steam picking up. I thought they were overreacting but now I see it from their perspective," WENN quotes her as saying.

"I would have been bloody p****d if I had been them and had cast a girl, against my better judgement, who got pregnant after the first season."

Eventually, the show's bosses wrote an alien abduction storyline into the plot allowing Anderson time to give birth to daughter Piper and enjoy ten days of maternity leave