Saira Choudhry plays Tegan

Tegan goes on a massive journey this series. We get to see an extremely vulnerable side to her which is quite different from her normal feisty straight talking tough character. Tegan still has her ups and downs with Stuart but still wears the trousers in the relationship, which I love but Tom Varey who plays Stuart hates LOL!

Working on NO OFFENCE is a hectic ball of exciting fun. I really do love every minute of it mainly because the cast get on so well. We’ve become a little family over the years as we spend so much time with each other for 5 months. It’s extra special for me filming in my home town, Manchester, where I grew up and still live. Every location has a memory and feels surreal filming there. In series 2 I filmed at an Asda I used to go to with my Grandma every week when I was 8. And I remember that was the age I decided I wanted to be an actress. I never thought I would be filming there years later.

This season the most memorable location was Tommyfield Market in Oldham where I was blessed to work with my 17 year old daughter Leah on her second professional acting job (production hadn’t realized who she was when she auditioned!) She came into NO OFFENCE as a guest artist. Not many actors get to ever work with their kids and especially not in the same scene together. She did giggle when I got my lines wrong - and I had to give her the “mum look” - a surreal experience!

Also this series I had 50 students from my drama school TV Talent who were cast to film a school scene in the second episode. The kids told me how much they enjoyed the day and how much they learnt watching the actors and the discipline of being on a set, which you can never learn in a class. TV Talent is a drama school I set up myself based in Manchester for kids aged 3 to 18 and our main focus is creating self-belief and confidence through performance – and filming on NO OFFENCE was a brilliant experience for them.