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BBC child star unrecognisable in new Jack the Ripper drama – can you tell who he is?

Published on April 02, 2025 at 06:05 PM

BBC child star unrecognisable in new Jack the Ripper drama – can you tell who he is?

THEY say a leopard can't change its spots, but it seems Tyger-Drew Honey can make himself virtually unrecognisable.

has transformed himself into a Victorian for new Sky History series, Jack the Ripper: Written in Blood which drops next week.

Tyger Drew-Honey as Ernest Parke.
Tyger Drew-Honey as Ernest Parke in new Sky History series, Jack the Ripper: Written in Blood
Photo of the cast of Outnumbered: Hugh Dennis, Claire Skinner, and their three child actors.
Tyger, far left, appeared in Outnumbered, which launched on BBC One in 2007

The three-part drama-documentary explores the infamous Whitechapel murders of 1888 from an entirely new angle.

It looks at how a team of reporters from local newspaper, The Star, created and fuelled the legend of Jack The Ripper and in so doing, contributed to a serial killer evading justice.

Tyger, who’s almost as famous for his adult movie parents Ben Dover and Linzi Drew as he is for appearing in , plays one of the hacks on the publication.

Hayley Reynolds, Director of Documentaries and Factual at Sky said: “This series offers audiences a startlingly contemporary lens through which to view the Jack the Ripper story.

“The perspectives of contributors who have personal experience of this world provide insight like never before, re-framing the story for Sky HISTORY’s audiences.”;;

Tyger, 29, was last seen in Outnumbered, which launched on in 2007 when he was just 11 years old, at Christmas when a festive special had viewers tuning in in droves.

Appearing alongside his TV siblings, played by and , viewers were blown away by just how much they’d grown up since the early days of the show.

Just wait till they get a look at Tyger in his latest show, which airs on Sky History on Tuesday at 9pm.

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The Brockman family in their kitchen at Christmas.
Tyger, bottom right, with the Outnumbered cast during last year's Christmas Special
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