Sarah Michelle Gellar

Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar has laughed off a potential return to Sunnydale.

Citing her age as the stumbling block for reuniting with her old ’Scooby Gang’, the 30-year-old actress told The Independent: "Oh, God, I’ll be in a walker. And Buffy will be killing people with her cane."

However, she then offered a glimmer of hope to fans of the cult show, which ran for seven seasons. "It’s not in my immediate future, but stranger things have happened," admitted Gellar.

Since Buffy drew to a close in 2003, several spin-offs have been rumoured to be in development. Anthony Head, who played librarian Rupert Giles, told the Mirror this week that he would ’jump at the chance’ to reprise the character.

The Observer previously reported in 2001 that the BBC were developing a series called The Watcher based around Giles’ further adventures, but this never came to fruition.

Rumours of Spike television movies starring James Marsters as the Cockney vampire also continue to persist. But actress Alyson Hannigan scotched rumours of a Willow spin-off earlier this year when she told Sci Fi Wire that “I think I would just be too scared to sort of go back and possibly tarnish it in any way.”

Buffy did manage to launch one successful companion show in the form of Angel. The David Boreanaz-starring series ran for five seasons until being axed in 2004.