Jake Roche
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Jake Roche (second from the right) with Rixton after performing at the Click 98.9 New Artist Showcase in August 2014
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Jake Peter Roche 16 September 1992 England, United Kingdom |
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| Years active | 2004–present |
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| Associated acts | Rixton |
Jake Peter Roche (born 16 September 1992) is a British singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Rixton, charting with "Me and My Broken Heart".
He played Isaac Nuttall in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale and Matt in the 2010 BBC musical film Rules of Love.
Born in Reigate, England in 1992, Roche is the son of English actor and entertainer Shane Richie and his then wife, singer and television personality Coleen Nolan. His parents divorced when he was nine years old. He has said about the divorce: "I remember seeing on the front pages about my dad cheating, but, as horrible as that was, we didn't fully understand because we were so young – so it’s not had this massive, damaging impact on us or anything."
He is good friends with Jessie Wallace and has admitted that he thinks of her as a sort of second mother.
He has one sibling, his older brother Shane Roche Jr. (born 1988), from his parents' marriage, and four half-siblings; a half sister Ciara (born June 2001) from his mother's and stepfather Ray Fensome's marriage, as well as a half-brother Mackenzie Blue Roche (born in 2006), and two half-sisters Lolita Bell Roche (born in 2008) and Romani-Skye Angel Shelley (born in 2011) from his father's second marriage.
He attended St Mary's Catholic College in Blackpool, prior to moving to London.
Roche trained at The Sylvia Young Theatre School for two years and appeared in the film Finding Neverland.
In 2010, he auditioned for the part of Isaac Nuttall in Emmerdale. Of the auditions he has said that he did not tell anyone who his parents were, Roche has said "I'd never go off mum and dad’s back because I wanted to know I could hold my own in a job like this." He was subsequently cast in the part and appeared on screens from August to October 2010.
He also appeared as Matt in the BBC musical film Rules of Love in 2010 and also appeared briefly in drama Scott and Bailey in 2012.
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