It had been seven years since we last saw a young Ryan Cawood on-screen with his gran, Catherine Cawood, in the hit drama Happy Valley. And some fans of the BBC One show may not know that there's is a very good reason for that.
Rhys Connah took on the role of Ryan, the son of Catherine's late daughter, Becky, and the evil Tommy Lee Royce, back in 2014 when he was just eight-years-old. When he first bagged the role a decade ago, it appears his family thought he was going to be in a children's TV show due to the programme's seemingly optimistic name.
"I overheard my mum speaking once to one of her friends," Rhys, from Heywood, Greater Manchester, previously revealed. "She was like, 'We got this script and it's called Happy Valley and I thought, this is going to be a really nice kids' show. Then I opened the script and I started reading and I thought - this is not a kids' show!'"
