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Meet Rivals actor Alex Hassell! Shirtless hunk is joining David Tennant and Poldark's Aiden Turner for Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper's VERY raunchy 80s romance novel


Hunky actor Alex Hassell has been announced as David Tennant's and Aiden Turner's co-star in the new Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper's raunchy 80s romance novel Rivals.

The show will also focus on the drama, excess, and shocking antics of the power-grabbing social elite of 1980s England (pictured L-R Alex, Danny Dyer, Jilly, David and Aidan) Finally, Bella Maclean is pictured sitting on a couch in wooden living room with her pet dog, playing Taggie O'Hara, Declan's tender-hearted yet strong-willed eldest daughter, who becomes an unexpected temptation for Rupert The streaming service continues that it brings a '2020s lens to the 1980s', offering a 'raw exploration of a complicated moment in British history when class, race, sex, wealth, and sexual liberation meant that, for the very privileged few, there were no limits to what they could achieve'.

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