Waterloo Road confirms unexpected child death – and star was kept in the dark

Waterloo Road’s abrupt decease successful the 5th occurrence of bid 14 came not lone arsenic a daze to viewers this evening, but to histrion Nathan Wood arsenic well.

Brian ‘Boz’ Osbourne was abruptly killed disconnected during tonight’s instalment of the BBC schoolhouse drama, arsenic Billy Savage (Olly Rhodes) fought backmost against his bullies.

Boz and Schuey Weaver (Zak Sutcliffe) spent weeks tormenting Billy, until helium yet snapped.

In shocking scenes, Billy tied a portion of chord crossed the tow path, knowing that Schuey would beryllium coming to find him that night.

However, it was Boz who turned up, and erstwhile his motorcycle instrumentality deed the chord, helium was sent flying implicit the grip bars, with the interaction of the pavement sidesplitting him instantly.

Terrified, Billy called successful headteacher and dada Steve Savage (Jason Manford) for help, and unneurotic they decided to screen up the transgression successful the hopes that everything would spell backmost to mean – though Billy is acceptable to conflict successful the aftermath of the traumatic event.

‘Billy’s astatine a implicit loss. He doesn’t rather recognize wherefore they’ve really done what they’ve done,’ Actor Olly Rhodes explained.

‘Ultimately he’s started to judge that it astir apt would person been champion to telephone the constabulary archetypal and spell done the due channels, arsenic it were. But yet his dada is the lone benignant of fig successful his beingness that helium tin spot and thin connected for immoderate benignant of support, truthful immoderate his dada says goes and that’s conscionable what helium has to enactment up with, I guess.’

The unexpected decease came arsenic a immense daze to viewers – but possibly not arsenic overmuch arsenic it did to Nathan, who played Boz!

‘I didn’t cognize astatine first!’ Nathan told us.

‘There was a infinitesimal we were each sat successful the greenish country and Nathan came in,’ Jason Manford explained. ‘Me and Olly knew the storyline and Nathan was like, “They’ve lone fixed maine a mates of episodes astatine the infinitesimal but I anticipation they’re going to springiness maine more.” We were conscionable sat determination like, “Yeah, yeah, bully luck with that.”

‘It was a spot of an awkward intro, wasn’t it?’ He laughed. ‘And we’d each signed NDA’s and worldly truthful we weren’t adjacent allowed to archer him what the storyline was.’

With Boz’s decease present covered up, volition Steve and Billy get distant with it?

‘He’s 100% convinced that he’s covered each the bases,’ Jason said. ‘He’s that benignant of bloke that, helium does deliberation extracurricular of the container and helium does deliberation “I’m cleverer than this copper, cleverer than the police.” Which, arsenic you cognize from immoderate transgression show, is the archetypal mistake the perpetrator makes…’

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