Starstruck's Alice Snedden pilots BBC comedy Late In Life
- Starstruck co-writer and director Alice Snedden is piloting Late In Life for the BBC
- The comedy, thought to be about sexual discovery, filmed this summer and co-stars Omar Baroud, Dipo Ola and Ambreen Razia
- Snedden has said that the minute she realised she was queer "there was no hesitation from me ... [I was] fully embracing it and going for it"
Starstruck writer Alice Snedden is piloting her own BBC comedy, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal.
Late In Life filmed this summer and is believed to echo the Kiwi comedian's personal journey of belatedly coming out as gay.
Snedden, who writes Starstruck with the sitcom's star Rose Matafeo and comic Nic Sampson, and has directed five episodes of the BBC Three hit, has written and helmed Late In Life, which is made by her management company Avalon.
The cast includes Wedding Season star Omar Baroud, Dipo Ola (Landscapers) and Hounslow Diaries creator Ambreen Razia.
Snedden, who played the blunt Amelia in Starstruck, and who co-created this year's Kiwi comedy series Double Parked about a lesbian couple who both get pregnant, reflected on her shifting sexuality and having an affair with a married woman in her stand-up show Absolute Monster, which she performed at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe.
Speaking on The Good Sex Project podcast in May, Snedden explained that she was 28 when she made a bet with friends that she would hook up with a woman that year.
"We were kind of laughing about it because I was straight" she recalled. "And like it seemed I wouldn't do that. But I think that was me opening the door."
Nothing happened within the next 12 months. But "the next year I met somebody and completely out of the blue we kissed.
"And then instantly, like honestly within I want to say a minute of the kiss, I came out to everybody. At the bar I told all my friends, 'I'm bi now, just to let you guys know'. Pretty sure within the week my parents knew, there was no hesitation from me. The minute I discovered it [I was] fully embracing it and going for it."