Love Rat is reshot after Alexis Georgoulis is accused of rape
A giant price range Channel 5 drama with Neil Morrissey needed to be re-shot after his co-star Alexis Georgoulis was accused of rape.
Love Rat, which begins tomorrow night time, was left in chaos after a authorized order that had protected Georgoulis, 49, from being recognized as a suspect within the 2020 assault in Belgium was lifted.
After being changed by former Casualty star Gerald Kyd, greater than 5 weeks of filming that includes lead actor Georgoulis have been shot once more, with the forged flown again to the Cyprus location. This primarily affected lead actress Sally Lindsay, 50, who performs a divorcee vacationer who falls for Georgoulis, a resort employee who tries to con her out of her life financial savings. She enlists her ex-husband, performed by Men Behaving Badly star Morrissey, 61, to get her a refund.
The declare towards Georgoulis, who can also be a Greek MEP, got here to gentle solely when the European Parliament voted to carry his prosecution immunity final June.
Belgian authorities had requested for the immunity to finish.
A bug price range Channel 5 drama with Neil Morrissey (pictured) needed to be re-shot after his co-star Alexis Georgoulis was accused of rape
Love Rat, which begins tomorrow night time, was left in chaos after a authorized order that had protected Georgoulis, 49, (pictured) from being recognized was lifted
The present stars Sally Lindsay who was flown into Cyprus for 5 weeks of re-shoots after her co-star’s identification was revealed
The alleged sufferer of rape, in early 2020, is a former European Parliament worker. Georgoulis vehemently denies the allegation.
Georgoulis, who performed Keeley Hawes’ love curiosity in ITV’s The Durrells, was dismissed from the Leftist Greek Syriza celebration as quickly because the immunity was raised.
Channel 5 chiefs additionally shortly axed him from Love Rat.
A supply on the present mentioned: ‘When Georgoulis was cast in the role, the allegation of rape against him had already been made. But due to his status as an MEP he was protected by immunity, so Channel 5 had no idea about any of it.
‘Filming finished in December of 2022 and the drama was in the edit stage when the rape allegation was finally made public. Channel 5 had spent a huge amount on the four hour-long episodes but they were left with no choice but to cut him from the drama. A decision was made in summer 2023 to recast the role.’
Mr Kyd, 51, was introduced in to exchange Georgoulis’s character Niko, that means former Coronation Street actress Ms Lindsay needed to return to Cyprus to refilm all of her character’s scenes with him. The present supply mentioned: ‘Sally had to refilm everything she’d beforehand performed with Georgoulis.
‘Fortunately, Neil Morrissey didn’t have that many scenes with this character – it was primarily Sally who needed to do all of it once more, this time with Gerald.’
