Inbetweeners star unrecognisable in hunky transformation for SAS Rogue Heroes

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The Channel 4 comedy star, who starred alongside the four Inbetweeners boys, looks dramatically different as a muscly soldier in the new series of SAS Rogue Heroes

This Inbetweeners star looks unrecognisable as a soldier in the new series of SAS Rogue Heroes.

Actor Theo Barklem-Biggs played rogue partygoer Richard in The Inbetweeners Movie (2011), who awkwardly tries to cling onto Will, Simon, Jay and Neil during their lads' holiday in Malia. The Inbetweeners gang get talking to him on the ill-fated boozy trip and quickly regret it.

They keep bumping into Richard, who reveals to the boys that he's decided to go on a "sesh" holiday all by himself. He asks the boys for booze, money and showers and, at the end of the film, is seen with his elderly parents on the party boat.

But these days, actor Theo looks worlds away from the unhinged character as he's bulked up to become a hunky soldier in the new series of SAS Rogue Heroes. He plays ripped military man Reg Seekings, a member of the SAS during World War II.

Actor Theo Barklem-Biggs looks worlds away from The Inbetweeners as Reg Seekings in SAS Rogue Heroes(Image: BBC)

Reg Seekings is based on a real person of the same name who was one of the founding members of the Special Air Service (SAS). He started from the bottom ranks and became a sergeant-major.

Theo is starring alongside Game of Thrones star Alfie Allen and Skins star Jack O'Connell in the series, as well as Sex Education star Connor Swindells, Kingsman's Sofia Boutella and The Crown's Dominic West.

The series kicked off its second series on New Year's Day(Image: BBC)

The series, made by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, launched its second series on New Year's Day. The unit is now led by O'Connell's Irish hardman character Paddy Mayne.

The team, named the Special Raiding Service, are deployed to the Sicily, where they're dropped onto the beaches and thrust into battle. The team have to contend with the likes of the Sicilian Mafia.

Jack O'Connell plays Paddy Mayne, who leads the unit(Image: BBC/Banijay UK/Ludovic Robert)

Joe Thomas, who played Simon in The Inbetweeners, previously discussed the possibility of a third Inbetweeners film. He told the Always Be Comedy podcast: "A movie, I think, works with the right idea. It would be challenging to do another series, just because of the timeline, but with the film there are all sorts of options. We’re all still around, we’re all still in each other’s lives.

"We all still like each other and if it was something that came up, I think we would want to do it. I feel like we all still really like each other, we’ve been able to go away and get various monkeys off our backs in terms of things that we felt we needed to do other than the Inbetweeners to prove something to ourselves."

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