Part two of Jennifer Saunders’ Back in the Saddle on tonight

The second of this two-part documentary series sees Jennifer Saunders meeting showjumpers and Team GBR performance manager, Rob Hoekstra, at La Baule.

Last week, the 54-year-old comedienne attempt to kick-start her competitive riding career after a break of 40 years, with lessons from Tim Stockdale and Piggy French.

In this episode, on ITV1 at 9pm tonight (Thursday, 23 August), Jennifer has a lesson with Laura Bechtolsheimer and achieves her goal of competing, at Houghton horse trials.

She is pictured with H&H blogger, Lauren Shannon.

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