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Neil Morrissey discovers his surprising background on ITV’s DNA Journey

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Line of Duty actor Neil Morrissey who was born in Stafford and later went into care has discovered his true background in a new series of DNA Journey. Neil, 60, was taken into care at the age of 10 and spent most of his teenage years in and around Stoke-on-Trent.

Neil - who owns the Plume of Feathers in Barlaston - appeared on an episode of the ITV programme DNA Journey with his friend Adrian Dunbar.

And in the show viewers will see Neil head to Castlecomer in southern Ireland, where he discovers he is 1% Scottish and 99% Irish. While there he discovers the battles between his ancestors the Loughlins, with another infamous local family, the Brennans.

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Lawrence and Mary Loughlin are Morrissey's great great grandparents and were known as "hellraisers" with documents showing they had charges of assault against the Brennans.

In 1914, his great gran Margaret got in trouble with the law for killing two ducks to eat - the Brennans reported it to police.

There was also a romance involving a Loughlin girl and a Brennan boy who moved to England and had a son, Joe. The story then focuses on Neil's great great Aunt Bridget Loughlin and her husband Joseph who ran away to Newcastle and got married in 1923.

However, tragedy struck the family just two years later when Joseph died when Bridget was pregnant in 1925 and his mother also died when he was young so Joe found himself down the pits aged 14, reports the Mirror.

Joe then eventually got a 'higher calling' and retrained and became a priest.

Neil travels to Dromantine house in County Down where Father Joe studied. He is accompanied by Adrian Dunbar who Neil insists he helped get a role in the hit drama Line of Duty.

Neil said: said: "It was a tragic beginning but you are very resilient when you are ten years old. I went into care and was suddenly away from my parents, my brothers and everything. You just learn to survive, I don't remember how, you just do it."

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Posted: 21 March 2023 | Last updated: 12 November 2023

Former Line of Duty and Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey features in tonight’s episode (March 21) of ITV series DNA Journey. The episode sees the Stafford-born actor rediscover his Irish roots.

He appears alongside his Line of Duty co-star Adrian Dunbar, who is from County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. While Dunbar has some knowledge of his family tree, Morrissey feels disconnected from his ancestry having been taken into care as a child.

Morrissey heads to Castlecomer, in County Kilkenny, to meet his cousin Marilyn - also a performer - who fills him in on the family’s history. Ironically, the two Line of Duty actors learn that they both have ancestors who found themselves on the wrong side of the law.

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Where is Neil Morrissey from?

Neil Morrissey was born in Stafford to Irish parents in 1962. His parents both worked as psychiatric nurses, but he and his youngest brother Stephen were sent to live at various foster homes as children; Neil Morrissey spent most of his childhood at Penkhull Children’s Home.

Speaking in an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live last year, the star opened up about his difficult childhood. He revealed that he had been sent into care along with his brother after social workers expressed concern about the family’s domestic life.

“Social workers made the decision that our home life was unsafe. We were a little bit naughty as well - we were burgling a few places for petty amounts,” he explained. “It was more about the disruption of family life that the social workers decided to take me and my brother away from my family.”

Morrissey - who first shot to fame playing Tony in BBC sitcom Men Behaving Badly in the 1990s added that he did not see his brother for a decade. His parents, meanwhile, were told not to visit him in his foster home for the first six weeks of his time there.

“"They had three other children at home so it was difficult for them to come and see me as well. I was kind of getting used to the isolation and making new friends and a new way through life,” he said.

What is Neil Morrissey doing now?

Neil Morrissey’s recent acting roles include appearances in ITV’s The Good Karma Hospital and The Long Call, as well as BBC’s The Syndicate, written by the late Kay Mellor. In recent years he has also run a chain of pubs in Staffordshire; one, The Plume of Feathers in Barlaston , remains open.

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The episode of DNA Journey featuring Neil Morrissey and Adrian Dunbar will be shown tonight at 9pm on ITV1. Earlier episodes from the current series and previous series are available to view on ITVX .

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There's a mini Line of Duty reunion coming to ITV1 this year, although it's less AC-12 and more 23andMe this time, as Adrian Dunbar and Neil Morrissey take part in DNA Journey.

The fourth season of the ITV show will see another line-up of celebrity duos head off on an "emotional voyage of discovery" as they dig into their pasts.

Speaking to RadioTimes.com in an exclusive interview, Dunbar said that he went to Dublin with Morrissey to film their episode.

"Neil and I have just done an episode of [DNA Journey] and it was really enjoyable," he said. "Really enjoyable, travelling around, finding out about our relatives. Especially for Neil, his relatives are in various parts of Ireland. So that's going to be another interesting programme."

Season 4 will also see Hugh Bonneville team up with John Bishop to look into their families' histories, while Alex Brooker and Johnny Vegas receive the DNA treatment and Oti and Motsi Mabuse look into their ancestral roots.

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ITV has also teased that the new episodes will see the celebrities come "face to face with living relatives they never before knew existing", as the show uses cutting edge technology and genealogy to look into their bloodlines.

Speaking about the new season, ITV's head of entertainment commissioning Katie Rawcliffe said: "DNA Journey delves deep into the celebrity’s family history and has unearthed some astonishing revelations over the last few years.

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The documentary series first aired in 2019 with Ant and Dec's DNA Journey, a two-parter featuring the presenting duo, before expanding to feature the likes of Freddie Flintoff and Jamie Redknapp, Martin and Roman Kemp, and Amanda Holden and Alan Carr.

Season 3, which aired last year, saw The Chase's Anne Hegerty and Shaun Wallace team up to unearth their histories as well as Dancing on Ice 's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, and Gavin & Stacey 's Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb.

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Comedians John Bishop and Johnny Vegas are part of the line-up, too.

Returning for its fifth outing later this year, the format ties together various celebrity pairs as they set off on a quest to explore their often surprising roots while uncovering secrets in a life-changing voyage of discovery.

This time we have Downton Abbey 's Hugh Bonneville , comedians John Bishop and Johnny Vegas, Line of Duty duo Adrian Dunbar and Neil Morrissey, TV presenter Alex Brooker, and Strictly sisters Oti and Motsi Mabuse doing the digging.

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ITV's head of entertainment commissioning, Katie Rawcliffe, said in a statement: " DNA Journey delves deep into the celebrity's family history and has unearthed some astonishing revelations over the last few years.

"It's great to see these famous faces sharing their journey with each other and we've got another great line-up with some more fascinating surprises."

Mitre Studios' creative consultant Jim Allen went on to comment: "We're delighted at the continued success of DNA Journey , each series offers a unique insight into some of the nation's favourite celebrities and their very personal stories and this series contains some truly memorable moments and magical reveals."

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Previous participants of DNA Journey include I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here hosts Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly , cri cket legend Freddie Flintoff, The Chase quizzers Anne Hegerty and Shaun Wallace, Gavin & Stacey 's Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb, and Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden .

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Adrian Dunbar and Neil Morrissey team up in Tuesday night's episode of DNA journey as they travel to Ireland to learn about their family histories.

The duo, who have been friends for 42 years since they met in drama school, started alongside each other in the popular crime drama Line of Duty which was filmed in Northern Ireland.

In the episode using DNA and genealogy, they are on a journey that will take them across the UK and Ireland, reconnecting with lost cousins and unearthing long-held family secrets.

Read more: Adrian Dunbar and Line of Duty co-star on new series of ITV's DNA Journey

Neil revealed that he actually got Adrian his iconic as Ted Hastings in Line of Duty.

He said: "I mean I hate to tell you this but I got him the job.

"I was auditioning for this thing, Line of Duty and I was up for Nigel Morton and the lines opposite was an interview with Ted Hastings and I said to the Director, who's playing Ted Hastings and they went, 'We haven't cast it yet' and I went, have you thought of Adrian Dunbar?"

Adrian went on to say "he does claim that if it wasn't for him, which I'm absolutely fine with claiming that."

A moment in the new series shows the acting pair heading to Castlecomer in Ireland where Neil discovers the battles between his ancestors, the Loughlins, with another infamous local family, the Brennan’s.

How in a romance that echoes Romeo and Juliet – a Loughlin girl and a Brennan boy married, moved to England and had a son, Joe.

Following the tragic turns and eventual highs of cousin Joe’s life, Neil finds himself having pavlova with priests and clutching Joe’s bible - his first tangible connection with a relative’s life

Adrian and Neil's DNA Journey episode airs on ITV and ITVX at 9pm on Tuesday, March 21

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Actors Adrian Dunbar and Neil Morrissey will explore their ancestry in a brand new season of "DNA Journey."

ITV's genealogy docuseries, which will return later this year,  sees celebrities tracing their ancestors and making remarkable discoveries about the past using DNA science and technology. Adrian Dunbar and Neil Morrissey will team up on the show to go in search of their ancestry and find out about their bloodlines.

Dunbar has received acclaim for his role as Superintendent Ted Hastings in the popular show "Line of Duty." Neil Morrissey, who also featured in the show as DC Nigel Morton, is renowned for his role as Tony Smart in the British comedy "Men Behaving Badly." The men also once shared a flat in London during the 1980s, according to ClassicHits.ie.

Other celebrities taking part in the latest series of the show include actor Hugh Bonneville, who will be paired with comedian John Bishop, while fellow comedians Alex Brooker and Johnny Vegas will team up together, as well as sisters Oti and Motsi Mabuse from "Strictly Come Dancing."

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ITV's head of entertainment commissioning, Katie Rawcliffe, said in a statement: "DNA Journey delves deep into the celebrity's family history and has unearthed some astonishing revelations over the last few years.

"It's great to see these famous faces sharing their journey with each other and we've got another great line-up with some more fascinating surprises."

Dunbar told the Radio Times that he went to Dublin with Morrissey to film their episode.

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"Neil and I have just done an episode of [DNA Journey] and it was really enjoyable," he said. "Really enjoyable, traveling around, finding out about our relatives. Especially for Neil, his relatives are in various parts of Ireland. So that's going to be another interesting program."

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• Genres: Documentary, Special interest, Biography
• Network: ITV
• Premiere Date: Mar 14, 2023
• Executive producers: Kathleen Larkin , Sanjay Singhal , Steve Nam , Iain Thompson

Cast & Crew

Adrian Dunbar

Johnny Vegas

Motsi Mabuse

Alex Brooker

Neil Morrissey

Rory McCann

Iain Thompson

Paul Aviles

Film Editor

Kathleen Larkin

Executive Producer

Sanjay Singhal

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