Rose Ayling-Ellis: ‘I can’t represent all deaf people because all deaf people are different’

Deaf actress Rose Ayling-Ellis and her co-stars discuss the joy of making a show that champions lip readers with new ITV crime drama, 'Code Of Silence', writes Ella Walker

Rose Ayling-Ellis as Alison Brooks in 'Code of Silence'.

Every day on the set of new ITV crime drama Code Of Silence, the cast and crew learned a word in British Sign Language (BSL), but deaf actress Rose Ayling-Ellis had some rules.

“I really tried to avoid teaching rude words, because often that’s the only one people remember, and they don’t remember anything else,” says the former EastEnders star, 30.