Michelle Keegan returns to ITV for huge new job alongside Hollywood star
But husband Mark Wright might be less thrilled as she'll be starring in the show, called The Blame, with Hollywood heartthrob Douglas Booth.
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It's also the first time in eight years that Michelle, 38, has worked with ITV, which is where she shot to fame on Coronation Street between 2008 and 2014.
A TV insider said: "This is quite sensational return-to-work for Michelle, bagging a big role in a drama which execs are clearly investing in hugely with an all-star cast including hunky Douglas.
"It's quite a coup for ITV to tempt Michelle back too, because recently she's been making more shows for the BBC, Sky and Netflix, where she became a huge star."
The new drama sees Michelle play DI Emma Crane alongside Douglas as DI Tom Radley who have to investigate what ITV calls: "a tragic death that spirals into a tangled web of lies, institutional cover-ups, and moral compromise."
The last time Michelle, who gave birth to daughter Palma Elizabeth Wright in March, was on ITV was playing Tina Moore, wife of football legend Bobby Moore, in the three-part drama Tina and Bobby in 2017.
Since then she's had a string of hits including comedy Brassic on Sky, Ten Pound Pomms on BBC One as well as her biggest hit, Fool Me Once, which was viewed a staggering 107 million times in the first six months it was on Netflix.
Meanwhile her co-star on The Blame, Douglas, 33, has appeared in a string of huge dramas. H
He shot to fame in 2010 playing Boy George in BBC show Worried About the Boy, then went on to star in megabucks TV shows including Netflix's The Sandman as well as the movie, Mary Shelley.
Six-parter The Blame is based on the debut novel of the same name by Charlotte Langley.
It will also feature Harry Potter star Ian Hart and Line of Duty villain Nigel Boyle.
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