ACTRESS turned cake maker Jane Asher has joined BBC1’s gritty school drama Waterloo Road.
Asher, 65, will star as a no-nonsense inspector who investigates progress at the troubled comprehensive.
Bosses are delighted to have secured her for the eighth series, said to be one of the most dramatic yet.
A show insider said of the inspection scenes, to be shown in the autumn: “Her arrival couldn’t come at a worse time.
“There is trouble between the staff and pupils – and she will come across it.”
Asher, who has three children with cartoonist husband Gerald Scarfe, 75, is staying in Manchester while filming in Rochdale.
She is joined on the show by former Silent Witness star Alec Newman, who takes on the job of headmaster.
He sets out to improve the school, while coming to terms with a traumatic experience in his previous job.
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