Loose Women star Lisa Maxwell is set to appear in a new ITV crime drama centred on the discovery of a child's remains. The scenes were filmed before the devastating death of her own daughter.
The actress, best known for playing Samantha Nixon in The Bill, will feature in the latest series of Unforgotten, which stars Sanjeev Bhaskar and Sinead Keenan as detectives investigating cold cases.
Filmed before daughter's death
The news comes after Lisa's daughter Beau Jessup, 27, died unexpectedly while studying in New York. Beau was the only child of Lisa and her husband Paul, who welcomed her in 1999 before tying the knot in 2014.
Lisa's involvement in the crime drama was revealed earlier this year, months before Columbia University confirmed Beau's death in a heartbreaking statement.
Storyline details
The latest Unforgotten storyline sees detectives DI Sunny Khan and DCI Jess James investigate after what appear to be the remains of a child are discovered decades later in the crawl space of a London property.
The emotional subject matter comes as Lisa and her family navigate the loss of Beau, whose cause of death has not been disclosed.
A spokesperson for Columbia Journalism School said: "Columbia Journalism School mourns the loss of Beau Jessup, a student in our M.S. program. We join Jessup's family, friends and classmates in remembering her."
Beau's academic background
Beau was studying for a master's degree at the prestigious New York university and was part of its Class of 2027. She had been expected to graduate next May.
Before moving to America, she studied Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Writing for Performance at the University of Cambridge.
The university also shared an interview with Beau conducted before her death, in which she reflected on growing up with a famous mother and how that influenced her interest in journalism.
She said: "I grew up with an unusual awareness of the distance between people's lives and the stories told about them.
"I saw how journalism could illuminate someone's experiences, but also how those experiences could be distorted, simplified, or transformed into a public narrative over which the subject had very little control.
"I was curious, from quite a young age, about who gets to tell people's stories, and what happens when those stories enter the public domain."
Lisa has not publicly shared further details surrounding her daughter's death.
