Shane Richie Keeps Acting in the Family
It looks as if all the acting talent that Shane Richie has got (acting), has been passed on down to his 17 year old son!
That’s right, young Jake Roche has followed the same career path as his father, so you can bet both of his parents are proud! The first time he will appear on TV, will be next month in August – we’re not sure exactly when his first TV episode will air, so we really will have to stay tuned in to find out.
So just which TV show has young Jake joined then? Well he will be appearing in many episodes, yes it is a soap he has joined and no it is not the soap that his father worked on, so that rules out Eastenders and just leaves Emmerdale and Coronation Street. So which one could it be…Emmerdale!
He’ll be joining the country based soap and hopefully do some cheering up for one specific character – Hannah Barton.
When Jake joins the soap he will be taking on the character of a good-looking college student named Issac and his first storyline will immediately begin as his character and Grace Cassidy’s ‘Hannah Barton’ form a close relationship.
According to the Emmerdale producer, Jake’s character will “offer some light relief for Hannah as her family face their darkest hour.”
That dark time would be the drug abuse that Hannah’s sister Holly is facing and even though Hannah has got a new man in her life, all the attention seems to be given to Holly – so you can imagine that didn’t go down to well with Hannah!
So hopefully the comfort of Issac will keep Hannah happy, even if it’s just for a little while. Plus it seems that Jake himself, is simply “thrilled” to have secured an acting part such as this and sometimes he literally has to pinch himself to make sure that he is actually awake and it is not a dream. He said, according to Female First, that it is “all very surreal.”
