Lacey s-witches to ITV2 for bewitching new role
From Walford to witchcraft ... former EastEnder Lacey Turner joins spooky new drama Switch
Last Updated: 30th March 2012
LACEY Turner has got a magic new role – as a witch.
The former EastEnder has been cast in ITV2's new supernatural drama Switch, about a group of four young women living in London, who just happen be witches.
It's not the first spooky role the 24-year-old has taken on since leaving Walford – where she played Stacey Branning for six years – in 2010.
Lacey also starred in BBC3's Being Human and also played the Bride of Frankenstein in a special live event from Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds.
In Switch, the award-winning actress is teaming up with The Inbetweeners' Hannah Tointon, another former EastEnder Nina Toussaint-White and Black Mirror's Phoebe Fox.
Lacey will play "immaculately dressed" careerist Stella, while Tointon is the "restless and spontaneous" Hannah, Toussaint-White is "sexy and stylish" fashionista Jude and Fox is the group's "moral compass" Jade.
As the four 'Witches of Camden', the girls must deal with the ordinary challenges of life in modern London, as well as facing their sworn enemies the 'Witches of Kensington.'
Produced by Being Human's Philip Trethowan and written by Chloe Moss (Prisoners' Wives) and Tim Price (Secret Diary of a Call Girl), the six-part series will start filming in London, Cardiff and Bristol next month.
ITV spokeswoman Laura Mackie said: "Switch is a contemporary series about friendship with a spell-binding twist.
"Chloe and Tim have created four fun-loving, free-spirited characters and we're delighted with the direction the series takes."
Lacey also starred in BBC3's Being Human and also played the Bride of Frankenstein in a special live event from Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds.
In Switch, the award-winning actress is teaming up with The Inbetweeners' Hannah Tointon, another former EastEnder Nina Toussaint-White and Black Mirror's Phoebe Fox.
Co-stars ... Hannah Tointon (left) and Nina Toussaint-White
As the four 'Witches of Camden', the girls must deal with the ordinary challenges of life in modern London, as well as facing their sworn enemies the 'Witches of Kensington.'
Produced by Being Human's Philip Trethowan and written by Chloe Moss (Prisoners' Wives) and Tim Price (Secret Diary of a Call Girl), the six-part series will start filming in London, Cardiff and Bristol next month.
ITV spokeswoman Laura Mackie said: "Switch is a contemporary series about friendship with a spell-binding twist.
"Chloe and Tim have created four fun-loving, free-spirited characters and we're delighted with the direction the series takes."
