{"id":579931,"date":"2026-05-12T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579931\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:15:09","slug":"bbc-drama-wahala-casts-cush-jumbo-adelayo-adedayo-susan-wokoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579931\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Drama ‘Wahala’ Casts Cush Jumbo, Adelayo Adedayo & Susan Wokoma"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCush Jumbo<\/a>, Adelayo Adedayo<\/a>, Deborah Ayorinde and Susan Wokoma<\/a> are leading the cast of Wahala<\/a>, the BBC<\/a> adaptation of the Nikki May novel from Rocks director Theresa Ikoko. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe show weaves between four Nigerian-British women in their thirties, navigating careers, love and family in present day London. <\/p>\n

\n\tAdedayo (The Responder, Supacell), Jumbo (Criminal Record, The Young People) and Wokoma (Cheaters, Enola Holmes) play Simi, Boo and Ronke, best friends who have shared every aspect of life for years. Their carefully balanced world is disrupted when Isobel, played by Ayorinde (Them, Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue) a charismatic and super-wealthy new acquaintance, enters their orbit. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe four are joined by Nigerian screen icon Genevieve Nnaji. Ikoko co-wrote Rocks, the critically-acclaimed coming-of-age drama that earned her a BAFTA nomination. She also wrote on BAFTA nominee Get Millie Black for HBO and Channel 4.<\/p>\n

\n\tLindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, said: \u201cTheresa\u2019s scripts for Wahala are an absolute joy \u2013 riveting, full of rich and complex characters, and everything you\u2019d want from Nikki May\u2019s exquisite book brought vividly to life on screen. It\u2019s no surprise that it\u2019s attracted a cast of this magnificent calibre.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWahala is executive produced by Nawfal Faizullah for the BBC, Elizabeth Kilgarriff and Craig Holleworth for Firebird Pictures<\/a> and Ikoko. The directors are Leonora Lonsdale, Ikoko and Remi Weekes and the producer is Ado Yoshizaki Cassuto. BBC Studios<\/a> will handle global sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cush Jumbo, Adelayo Adedayo, Deborah Ayorinde and Susan Wokoma are leading the cast of Wahala, the BBC adaptation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[198319,243,13469,198320,96,198321,59,198322,56,54,55,198323],"class_list":["post-579931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-adelayo-adedayo","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-studios","tag-cush-jumbo","tag-entertainment","tag-firebird-pictures","tag-gb","tag-susan-wokoma","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wahala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}