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| First Name | Lyndyann |
| Last Name | Barrass |
| Full Name at Birth | Lyndyann Barrass |
| Alternative Name | Lyndyann Barrass, Lyndyann Power |
| Birthday | 30th November, |
| Birthplace | Newcastle, England |
| Build | Slim |
| Eye Color | Blue |
| Hair Color | Red |
| Ethnicity | White |
| Occupation Text | Actress | Soundtrack |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Year(s) Active | &#;present |
Lyndyann Barrass (born in Newcastle, England) is an English actress and is best known for playing Spuggie in BBC television series Byker Grove.
Lyndyann Barrass
English actress (born )
Lyndyann Barrass | |
|---|---|
| Born | Newcastle, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years&#;active | –present |
| Television | Byker Grove |
Lyndyann Barrass (born in Newcastle, England) is an English actress and is best known for playing Spuggie in BBC television series Byker Grove.
Career
Lyndyann Barrass began her career playing Kirsty "Spuggie" Campbell, a character who appears in the CBBC television series Byker Grove. The character appeared on the show from and became a fan favourite.
The character "Spuggie" became one of the most well known characters on British TV and the name became synonymous with British children as well as adults around the UK with people quoting "Spuggie" or "going down grove tsee our Spuggie" anytime Newcastle or Byker Grove was mentioned.
Today Lyndyann goes on to appear in various theatre shows across the country and also working part-time at a call centre in Sunderland.
Personal life
In and after six years on the show Spuggie was written out and Lyndyann went to Sunderland College to study performing arts. She struggled to find acting work having been typecast, and at the age of 21 she joined a band called Angel. They lasted just a year.
Was the victim of an attack which put a pause on her acting career. "Aged 21, I joined a band called Angel, but we weren’t successful and I left after a year. Three years later, I was beaten unconscious in the street by three strangers who recognised me as Spuggy. Thankfully, I wasn’t badly injured, but it was the final straw, I decided to quit show business for good."
Since then Lyndyann Barrass has given acting another go and she continues to act as well as appear as a guest on numerous shows on British Television.
Filmography
References
- ^McGown, Alistair. "Byker Grove". Screen Onlin
I was Spuggy in Byker Grove until I was axed for shocking reason… now I earn £14 an hour after massive career change
SHE was known to millions as flame-haired Spuggy - and actress Lyndyann Barrass says she's still mates with her Byker Grove co-stars Ant and Dec.
Earlier this month The Sun revealed the Geordie duo are bringing back the classic 90s show, 17 years after it was last seen on our screens.
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The boss of the production company has hinted Ant and Dec - who used their character names PJ & Duncan to launch a pop career - may make a surprise return.
Speaking to The Sun, Lyndyann - now 47 and living in Sunderland - admits she'd love a cameo in the reboot, and has already sent a text to pal Dec to say so.
She says: "I think another Byker Grove would be successful and I’d go back in a heartbeat, but obviously they’d need to stream it and it would need to appeal to a generation who are more into TikTok.”
Lyndyann was written out of Byker Grove aged 16 - something she believes was down to her contract.
She says: “I think by 16 you have to go on a higher pay bracket, and they couldn’t suddenly have everyone turning 16 on that sort of money."
Lyndyann formed a friendship with Declan Donnelly in after he was cast alongside her on the show, set in a youth club in the Byker area of Newcastle.
She recalls: “We were just always around each other and always got on.
“I called him ‘Deccie poos’ which really irritated him but we had a lot of fun.
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“I had to punch him in one scene where he messed up my flower patch at the youth club. I remember we were laughing about it, and he was saying, ‘Go easy on me!’.
“If we weren’t being schooled or filming, there was a holding room where we’d play pool together.
“He was so cute. I definitely fancied him but I wasn’t the sort to have ever said anything like that. There was this instant chemistry between all the cast.”
A year later Ant McPartlin joined as PJ, and TV’s mos
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