to star in Coronation Street as Spider, followed by Holby City as Reg Lund. Clare Clifford, played lesbian lawyer Sarah Newly who propositions Anna in episode five of the second series. Stuart Organ, best known as Mr Robson in Grange Hill appeared as a flasher in the first series. Jodie Whittaker, later the Thirteenth Doctor in Doctor Who, plays Clare in This Life +10. Characters This Life initially featured a core cast of five main characters sharing a rented house in Southwark with a supporting cast drawn from their professional and private lives. Main Cast Egg (series 1-2 & +10 special) Born Edgar Cook in Manchester, Egg is an English graduate with a conversion in Law and is in a full time relationship with girlfriend Milly. At the beginning of the series he interviews, and is successful, in gaining a junior position with solicitors firm Moore Spencer Wright. Egg met Millie at university and they have been in a solid relationship since then. In the first series, Egg struggles to fit in at his legal firm, feeling demotivated by the tedium of the job. Early in the series, he is assigned one of his boss’ clients as a case, but the client, who has cancer, dies by unexpectedly taking his own life and Egg realises Law is not for him, quitting the firm midway through series 1. After brief stints attempting to write a novel and working at telesales (before he is fired for going off-script after only one day on the job), Egg finds his passion early in series 2 when he gets a job in a café working alongside single mum Nicki; enjoying the work, despite the low pay, Egg decides to purchase the café after its owner Mrs Cochrane moves to Ireland and puts it up for sale. Egg also has challenges with his family- his father Jerry visits from Manchester and reveals that his mother has been having an affair with a family friend, although they are later reconciled in the second series. It is revealed also that Egg is a keen football fan and supports Manchester United. Egg’s relationship with Milly is initially strained in the first series- she is unhappy with his lack of motivation and being the sole breadwinner after he quits his job, although they rekindle their passion after a therapy session and has sex for the first time in months in