This Is England star Thomas Turgoose reveals Stephen Graham and director Shane Meadows offered to adopt him after his mum died

Actor Thomas Turgoose says Stephen Graham and director Shane Meadows offered to adopt him after his mum died shortly after work ended on the film in 2006.

The star, who was 13 at the time, was going to live with his dad but as he ‘didn’t know him’, the pair said they would take care of him if things didn’t work out.

Line of Duty star Stephen had promised Thomas’ mum, who died of lung cancer, that he would look after her son.

‘When my mum died I moved in with my dad and I didn’t know him so Shane Meadows and Steven Graham were going to adopt me if things didn’t work out with my dad,’ he told the podcast Private Parts.

The cast were incredibly close and the director even dedicated the film to Thomas’ mum Sharon, who did not get to see the finished film. Cast members such as Graham, Vicky McClure and Jo Hartley went to the Intergalactic star’s wedding in 2018.

Before landing the breakout role of Shaun in the critically acclaimed film, about a young boy who falls in with a gang on skinheads in 80s England, Thomas confessed he was ‘destined for prison, shoplifting things I didn’t need.’

‘There was a hardware store in Grimsby that I used to steal spray paint from for no reason,’ the star added.

He reprised the role of Shaun in Shane’s TV follow ups to the film – This Is England ’86 in 2010, This Is England ’88 the following year and This Is England ’90 in 2015.

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