In new BBC2 comedy Spent, Michelle de Swarte plays a washed-up catwalk model trying to adapt to a life of poverty. She knows the modelling world very well too as Michelle was scouted by a modelling agency at 19, and now she’s put her memories of her successful modelling career to good use by creating this new show. She also stars in it too, playing Mia, a former catwalk model who is now unemployed, broke and homeless.
"To have my first commission as a writer for the BBC seems like some sort of fever dream," Michelle says. "The shows I watched growing up are like landmarks in my memory, so to be able to share a space with those shows in someone else's mind is more than I ever thought possible!"
