Remember Mildred Hubble from The Worst Witch? Actress Georgina Sherrington is unrecognisable now

ALMOST two decades ago The Worst Witch had us all in its spell.

Mildred Hubble and her classmates at Miss Cackle’s Academy For Witches first wove their magic on CITV in 1998 and the series ran until 2001.

But what happened to Georgina Sherrington, who played the hapless witchlet of the title?

Georgina was just 13 when she first put on Mildred’s pointy hat and climbed on her broomstick.

After The Worst Witch, she left kids’ TV to return to her studies at Wimbledon High School.

She then moved to New Jersey to attend Princeton University and graduated in 2008.

Now 36 and back in the UK, Georgina has switched her focus to working behind the camera rather than in front of it and is a Development Executive for TV Drama.

Georgina popped up in February for a reunion with The Worst Witch co-star Emma Jayne Brown – also known as Maud Moonshine.

Other child stars who we’ve recently tracked down include baby Aggy from Nanny McPhee and the original Lucy Beale from EastEnders.

The good news for Mildred Hubble fans is that Miss Cackle’s Academy may soon be reopening for business.

In February, CBBC announced a reboot and said they were working on 13 new episodes based on Jill Murphy’s famous characters.