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A big budget Channel 5 drama with Neil Morrissey had to be re-shot after his co-star Alexis Georgoulis was accused of rape.

Love Rat, which starts tomorrow night, was left in chaos after a legal order that had protected Georgoulis, 49, from being identified as a suspect in the 2020 attack in Belgium was lifted.

After being replaced by former Casualty star Gerald Kyd, more than five weeks of filming featuring lead actor Georgoulis were shot again, with the cast flown back to the Cyprus location. This mainly affected lead actress Sally Lindsay, 50, who plays a divorcee tourist who falls for Georgoulis, a hotel worker who tries to con her out of her life savings. She enlists her ex-husband, played by Men Behaving Badly star Morrissey, 61, to get her money back.

The claim against Georgoulis, who is also a Greek MEP, came to light only when the European Parliament voted to lift his prosecution immunity last June.

Belgian authorities had asked for the immunity to end.