Michelle Keegan and Patsy Kensit turn into a feisty mother-daughter duo as they tackle family dinner in new Tina and Bobby pics
The pair play mother and daughter in the new period drama coming to ITV
MICHELLE Keegan's new character Tina looks like she needs all the help she can get as she gets ready to marry Bobby Moore - and who better to ask than her mum.
Patsy Kensit will be taking on the role of the young star's glamorous mother, and the pair get to work preparing a dinner to impress the family ahead of the wedding day.
The three-part biographical drama will see Tina and Bobby, played by Lorne MacFadyen, take on the world as they get married - including the World Cup in 1966.
Michelle, 29, has revealed that her real-life in-the-spotlight marriage to Towie hunk and presenter Mark Wright left her relating to her character in a way she wasn't expecting.
She told The Sun: “Mark supports West Ham, who Bobby played for, so he’s shown a lot more interest in this than other things I’ve worked on!"
She added: “He was like: ‘You’re doing my dream job.’ I don’t even understand the offside rule!”
Tina & Bobby tells the story of how, thanks to his heroics helping England win the 1966 World Cup, the ordinary couple from modest upbringings were suddenly confronted with the extraordinary world of fame and fortune.
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“I can relate to what Tina and Bobby went through [in the public eye] – people only see a small percentage of your life and they don’t understand what goes on away from the spotlight,” says Michelle.
“But what really matters is your home life and I’m very lucky that mine is normal and that’s because of the people I have around me.
“Media interest is like water off a duck’s back now. Mark and I have a strong dynamic.”
Michelle had to adopt an Essex accent for the role, but thankfully Mark was able to help her ditch her Northern twang in favour of a Southern sound.
She the : "Tina had elocution lessons when she was young but she had an Essex twang.
“Mark helped me by saying a word and I would repeat it back.
“He was over the moon when he found out that I was playing the wife of Bobby Moore.
“He knows so much about Bobby Moore so he was really excited. Not long before I got the script, we watched a documentary about Bobby Moore and I found it fascinating."
Tina and Bobby begins on ITV on Friday January 13 at 9pm.
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