Rose Ayling-Ellis to star as lip-reading crimebuster in new TV drama
msn.comStrictly Come Dancing winner Rose Ayling-Ellis has landed her own ITV drama – where her character uses lip-reading to help catch a dangerous gang of criminals.
Code of Silence puts Rose in the lead role of catering worker Alison Woods who is based in a police canteen and is deaf. But she is plucked from her day job to lip-read the conversations of some criminals and is plunged into a new and exhilarating world.
Her interpretation of the gang’s clandestine meetings quickly become key to unlocking the police investigation. But her feelings about the case then become complicated when Alison finds herself drawn to one of the suspects.
Rose, 28, who has been deaf since birth, said: “I am so thrilled to be coming on board for Code of Silence. ”The drama is written by Catherine Moulton who is partially deaf and a hearing aid user.
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