Jake Roche

Born in Reigate, England in 1992, Roche is the son of actor 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 attended St Mary's Catholic College in Blackpool, prior to moving to London.

Acting

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 appeared briefly in drama Scott & Bailey in 2012.

In 2014, along with his band, he appeared on the Nickelodeon series The Haunted Hathaways as themselves.

Music

Roche is the frontman for the band Push Baby, formerly Rixton, a pop and R&B group signed by Scooter Braun's SB Projects. The members of Push Baby are Roche on vocals and rhythm guitar and Charley Bagnall.

Rixton's first music video was released in October 2013 entitled "Make Out", an upbeat song that lampoons famous music videos from Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Robin Thicke, Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj, but it was never released as a single. Their first official single, "Me and My Broken Heart", is taken from their EP of the same name.

Jake has an older brother and younger maternal half sister as well as paternal half brother and sisters. Roche was in a relationship with Jesy Nelson from the girl group Little Mix.