David Leon: A whole new ball game

He failed as a footballer, but David Leon will be playing to millions in new primetime TV series Vera Northumberland in November can be bleak, but a more perfect backdrop for a crime drama you will not find. Happily for local lad David Leon, his days off from filming Vera here provided the opportunity to introduce his dog to the wild, empty beaches of his childhood. This is the lull, you sense, before prime-time ITV drama makes him famous. In Vera, based on Ann Cleeves ‘s Vera Stanhope novels, Brenda Blethyn plays the dishevelled but brilliant detective inspector; Leon is Sergeant Joe Ashworth, her young colleague. “They have this mother-son dynamic,” he says over tea in the Savoy hotel in London. “They bicker, but there’s a mutual respect.” Blethyn is as marvellous as you would expect, her accent perfected by watching Cheryl Cole on The

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