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18 View commentsVicky McClure shared a photo of her late great grandfather for the first time during an emotional episodeof BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?.
The Line Of Dutyactress, 40, is reduced to tears when learning how her great grandfather Harry Millership was captured alongside 130K other soldiers, according to the Mirror.
Sobbing and declaring he would have been 'absolutely petrified' while being transported via a 'hell ship' with many fellow men dying on route.
In the old black and white image that Vicky shared with fans, Harry is seen wearing his military uniform alongside fellow soldiers.
Vicky cried: 'It's so much to take in but I feel terrible because he was alone and he didn't make it home. I just weirdly feel connected, which is bonkers because I never met him.'
Vicky McClure shared a photo of her late great grandfather Harry Millership (second right) for the first time during an emotional episode of BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?
The Line Of Duty actress, 40, is reduced to tears when learning how Harry was captured alongside 130K other soldiers, according to the Mirror
Harry sadly died at the camp after falling 30ft to his death, with the actress taking comfort knowing he died instantly.
Vicky admitted she was nothing like her 'hard as nails' TV characters while tracing her ancestors and travelling to a prisoner of war camp inTaiwan.
She said: 'There's been a lot of it I've not found easy. For all the action-packed shows that I do and the fact that I might seem hard as nails in certain things, I probably couldn't be further from that'.
In the action-packed episode Vicky also learned her grandmother Jean was given up for adoption after being conceived out of wedlock.
Her adoptive parents terrible abused her, beat her and tried to force her into sex work.
During the show Vicky said: 'It breaks my heart knowing that she wasn't given away to good people. I never knew anyone as happy as her but she had such a bad start. In my head it's her trying to break that chain.'
It comes after Adrian Dunbar teased the return of Line of Duty during an appearance on Good Morning Britain.
Vicky cried: 'It's so much to take in but I feel terrible because he was alone and he didn't make it home. I just weirdly feel connected, which is bonkers because I never met him'
In the action-packed episode Vicky also learned her grandmother Jean (pictured) was given up for adoption after being conceived out of wedlock
The actor, 65, played Ted Hastings in the BBC police drama which last aired in 2021 for almost a decade and is currently starring in the musical Kiss Me, Kate in London's West End.
Joining hosts Susanna Reid and Ed Balls on the ITV show, Adrian admitted he is free to film after his stage show ends in September.
When questioned on the possibility of another series, he replied: 'Well I think so, Vicky thinks so, Martin (Compston) thinks so.
'Everybody thinks so! It’ll be down to the BBC and Jed Mercurio I think, when and whether we do it.'
He added: 'Hopefully, somebody will make a decision at some point.'
Ed asked how long it would take for a new series to be made, with Adrian explaining: 'First of all, Jed will have to write whatever he’s going to write. That doesn’t happen overnight.
'Then the BBC will have to make a decision on when we’re going to shoot it, where we’re going to shoot it.
Vicky has played a whole host of tough characters including bomb disposal expertLana Washington in ITV's Trigger Point (pictured)
'Hopefully we’ll get back to Belfast , that’s where we shot everything. It’ll easily be a year.'
The end of next year? Maybe,' he added.
In May, Adrian shared his hopes for the series to comeback before he 'gets any older.'
He told The Times: 'We all want it to come back. It’s apposite that today should be their [Vicky McClure and Martin Compton's shared] birthdays because I really don’t want them getting any older.
'I don’t want to get any older either because we don’t want to be coming back when we’re in wheelchairs. Ted Hastings with a Zimmer frame.'
Who Do You Think You Are? is on BBC1 and BBC iPlayer 9pm on 15 August
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