Sheridan Smith has been confirmed to star in a controversial BBC drama which focuses on the 2008 fake kidnapping of British schoolgirl Shannon Matthews.
The docudrama was originally shelved in 2014 but when it was revived it was thought that Sheridan, who would play Shannon’s mother Karen, was going to be dropped.
The Cilla star however is now back on board but this time as Julie Bushby, the woman who organised the local community in a desperate search to find the missing schoolgirl.