It was one of our favourite TV shows to come home to. That and Art Attack obviously.
The premise of My Parents are Aliens is all in the name really.
The show followed the trials and tribulations of three orphaned children: Mel, Josh and Lucy Barker, and their new foster parents Brian and Sophie Johnson.
The children soon discover that the Johnsons are in fact aliens from the planet Valux, who crash-landed on Earth when Brian tampered with the controls of their spaceship.
Award wining stuff. It ran on ITV from 8 November 1999 to 18 December 2006 (thanks, Wikipedia).
Comic lead and middle child Josh Barker was played by Alex Kew. Who looked like this.
Since the show’s finale, he played a few other parts, appearing in The Bill, as Oliver Sinclair (Ollie) and in the pilot episode of BBC Three comedy Coming of Age. He also played Simon Cosgrove in the film About a Boy.
Alex is now a musician and looks a lot different. He was playing a gig earlier this month and tweeted the below promotional shots.
You can check out his music HERE from the 1hr 11min mark.
I’m playing live on @WycombeSound radio tonight at 7pm. Tune in! https://t.co/uT15RapSmy pic.twitter.com/k2gKvUpgFJ
— Alex Kew (@AlexKew) December 16, 2015
Thanks to @WycombeSound for having us last night and to all those who tuned in. (photo courtesy of @offthahook2) pic.twitter.com/MfYdmw8tpI
— Alex Kew (@AlexKew) December 17, 2015
Photo by @Busby22. pic.twitter.com/fWXk9xJi3z
— Alex Kew (@AlexKew) January 7, 2016
