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Jacqueline Wilson is a hugely successful children’s author and has won a number of prestigious awards, including the British Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. In 2002 Jacqueline received an OBE for services to literacy in schools. She was the highest-borrowed author in British libraries in the last decade.

Stephen Tompkinson was born in Stockton-on-Tees. His Grandad (whom Stephen describes as 'a comic genius') inspired him to take up acting. He attended the Central Drama School, which he left at the age of 23 and he has rarely been out of work since. Stephen has worked on-stage, in radio, television and, most recently, on the big screen.