Rizzle Kicks' Jordan Stephens will make his acting debut in E4's new teen drama Glue.
The platinum award-winning hip-hop star will appear in the darkly comic series, which is set in a fictional country village where the secret lives of the troubled local teenagers are placed under scrutiny when one of them is found dead under the wheel of a tractor.
The eight-parter, which will screen in the autumn, has been written by Jack Thorne, whose credits include This Is England, Skins and The Fades. Jordan will star alongside Pramface's Yasmin Paige, Kierston Wareing, who is best known as Kirsty in EastEnders, and Kerry Fox, who also stars in BBC1's forthcoming World War One drama The Crimson Field.
Filling out the Glue cast are several rising stars including Leaving's Callum Turner, Line of Duty's Charlotte Spencer, Fresh Meat's Faye Marsay, Harry Potter's Jessie Cave and Waterloo Road's Tommy Lawrence Knight.
Sophie Gardner, Channel 4 Commissioning Editor, said: "They are thrilling scripts and the line-up reads like a roll-call of some of the brightest up-and-coming talent around. We can't wait for them to bring our bold new series to life. Brace yourself for a trip to the countryside...E4-style."
