![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/byker-groves-legends-look-very-different-after-quitting-fame-for-normal-jobs/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/byker-grove-star-lyndyann-barrass-28055672-1.jpg&description=BYK TO THE FUTURE Byker Groves legends look very different after quitting fame for normal jobs BYKER Grove fans were stunned as Billy Fane and Lyndyann Barrass looked unrecognisable since their time on popular kids show as they appeared on Loose Women today. The CBBC drama launched 32 years ago and entertained British kids for 17 years - until the Geordie youth club shut its doors in 2006. 5 Byker Grove's Billy Fane and Lyndyann Barrass looked unrecogniseable now Credit: Rex 5 The pair starred alongside each other in the Geordie kids show Billy, 77 and Lyndyann, 47, looked a far cry from their characters on the show, nearly 30 years on. Billy played the mega-moustached youth club leader Geoff for ten years, while Lyndyann enjoyed four years playing the red-haired youngster, Spuggy. The pair joined the Loose ladies on the ITV show on Thursday. Coleen Nolan asked them: "What do you feel about the show coming back?" Lyndyann replied: "It's exciting, it's very reminiscent and very bizarre walking down the street again and people say 'it's Spuggy'. "I think it's the flame red hair, I feel old now." Coleen then asked: "Have you stayed in contact with anyone...Ant or Dec?" The former TV star said: "I've spoken to Declan since, he said hello everybody and wants a nice picture to send." Denise Welch said: "If they asked you to go back and did a Bobby Ewing on you wold you come out the shower?" Lyndyann replied: "Yeah absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt." Host Jane Moore then asked: "You both made the decision to leave showbiz and you've sort of got proper jobs now, tell us what you do." Billy explained that he qualified as a teacher for adult people with dyslexia and went to teach in a young offenders institution. Then, at the age of 58, Bill passed a postgraduate education course at Hull University with a distinction and has now landed himself a new role in charge of teaching at six prisons throughout the north of England. Meanwhile, Lyndyann said: "At the moment I have){kind=link}
BYKER Grove fans were stunned as Billy Fane and Lyndyann Barrass looked unrecognisable since their time on popular kids show as they appeared on Loose Women today.
The CBBC drama launched 32 years ago and entertained British kids for 17 years – until the Geordie youth club shut its doors in 2006.
Billy, 77 and Lyndyann, 47, looked a far cry from their characters on the show, nearly 30 years on.
Billy played the mega-moustached youth club leader Geoff for ten years, while Lyndyann enjoyed four years playing the red-haired youngster, Spuggy.
The pair joined the Loose ladies on the ITV show on Thursday.