Rita Sue and Bob Too cast: What happened to the stars of the 80s comedy from Corrie and Benidorm to sad death

This year marks 35 years since the release of the bawdy British dark comedy Rita, Sue and Bob Too.

The Channel Four film was adapted by Andrea Dunbar, based on two of her stage plays; Rita Sue and Bob Too and The Arbour.

Directed by Alan Clarke, the film set in Bradford, West Yorkshire tells the shocking story of two teenage schoolgirls from a run-down estate who have a fling with a married man.

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To earn some money the girls babysit for Bob, played by George Costigan, and his wife Michelle, played by Lesley Sharp, who live in a detached house in a nicer part of town.

When Bob drives them home he sleeps with both girls and they plan to make it a regular thing.

So what has happened to the cast since the 1987 film shone a spotlight on Thatcher's Britain?

Michelle, 55, from Rochdale, played barmaid Tina Fowler for two years in Coronation Street.

She also starred in Heartbeat, the BBC police drama Merseybeat and she played Lyndsey Woodham a headteacher candidate in the Rochdale-based school drama Waterloo Road.

She was Yvonne Sparrow in the time travelling BBC sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart and she played Theresa in the gritty Manchester drama Shameless, cafe owner Mary in the return of the comedy drama Cold Feet and Maggie Kinsella in the Channe Four soap Hollyoaks.

After making her debut in Rita, Sue and Bob Too Oldham-born Siobhan played Julie O'Neill in three series of the BBC One drama series Clocking Off and she played Janice Garvey, the head of one of the most popular families in seven series of the popular ITV sitcom Benidorm.

In 2010 Siobhan, 55, was cast as maid Sarah O'Brien in Downton Abbey and a recovering heroin addict Clare in the BBC