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If that were the case there would be no-one watching the terminally depressing DeadendersQuote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
Kelly Brook has revealed that she would like to appear in EastEnders.
The model and actress is currently promoting her new movie Piranha 3D but admitted that she is not taking her acting career "too seriously".
"This industry can be so fickle, one minute you're up and then you're down," she told PA.
"I think you just have to really embrace it and enjoy what you do, not really take it too seriously and realise its not forever. Just enjoy it for what it is."
However, Brook said that she has aspirations to appear in one of the soaps.
"I'd love to do something like that," she admitted. "I'm here doing this stuff but I'm up for being in EastEnders or Coronation Street."
Brook, who says she is currently enjoying her "naked month", went on to speak about her role in the upcoming comedy horror flick.
"It was pretty easy in terms of getting the job because I was just sitting in a restaurant having dinner with my friends and the director spotted me and asked me to come along and audition for me that part," she said. "Coming to America and doing the movie, doing all this stuff, that's where the hard work comes in."
Brook recently said that she was "serious" about her career and approached every job with "professionalism and enthusiasm".
June Brown has admitted that she is missing having Barbara Windsor on the set of EastEnders to gossip with.
Windsor announced that she was leaving the BBC soap after 16 years last October. She filmed her final scenes in July.
Speaking to OK, Brown said: "Steve McFadden (Phil Mitchell) said to me just the other day, 'June, are you missing Barbara?' and I said yes."
She continued: "She was always coming in for a coffee. We get on very well, she makes me laugh, gives me all of the gossip and she's extremely intelligent."
The 83-year old actress, who plays Dot Cotton, revealed that Windsor has invited her on holiday.
"She has asked me to go and stay with her at her place in the Mediterranean so hopefully I'll be able to do that."
June Brown has admitted that her EastEnders character Dot Cotton is a "hypochondriac".
The 83-year-old actress told OK that the religious pensioner is prone to over-exaggeration.
"She's a hypochondriac," she said. "When she thought she had cancer it turned out to be a boil and when she swallowed chewing gum she was worried it would get entwined in her intestines, which is not like me at all."
Brown confessed that like Dot, she is a heavy smoker in real life. However, she said that she does not pay attention to the health risks associated.
"I don't count how many cigarettes I smoke," she said. "I think the worry is the dangerous thing.
"I don't want to read all those nasty messages. I'm convinced that my mother's cancer, which she died from, was caused by anxiety and stress. It's dangerous to worry, it's dangerous to fear."
June Brown is 83! Never thought she was that old.
I know! She looks great for her age, and a great actor too. I love Dot :DQuote:
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Don Gilet has revealed that he is to star in a pantomime of Aladdin this Christmas.
The actor, best known for portraying killer Lucas Johnson in EastEnders, will play the wicked sorcerer Abanazar at Bromley's Churchill Theatre, reports The Sun.
The 42-year-old said: "If you thought Lucas was evil, he's got nothing on Abanazar. I can't wait to hear all the boys and girls booing at me."
Gilet joins Melinda Messenger in the production, due to open on December 3.
Last month, Gilet was forced to defend his character's storyline in EastEnders after the BBC received complaints that the Johnson plot was offensive to Christians.
Lacey Turner has admitted that EastEnders' Stacey Branning will never forgive Becca Swanson if she finds out that she betrayed Bradley.
Becca's (Simone James) secret has so far remained undiscovered but Turner told What's On TV that that was about to change, as Becca herself reveals all to Stacey's mother Jean (Gillian Wright).
"It's actually quite chilling, Jean's scared," she said. "Becca tells Jean that Stacey is hers now."
Turner revealed that viewers would see Becca convince Stacey to wash away her medication.
"She encourages Stacey to believe that without the medication she'll be able to feel proper emotions again and will appreciate the joys of being with Lily more," she said. "Becca tells her the pills are the doctors' way of controlling her."
She also said that Stacey does not "for a moment" consider that Becca is lying.
"Becca's messing with Stacey's life more and more but Stacey can't see it," she added.
Of how Stacey would react if she discovered Becca's betrayal, Turner teased: "There will be no forgiveness."
It was announced in April that both Turner and Wright are to exit the BBC soap
16.58: Welcome to live coverage of EastEnders at 25: A Masterclass, discussing how the soap is written, produced and directed - focusing on the live episode in February. BBC Three controller Danny Cohen hosts the panel: Simon Ashdown, writer; Charlie Clements, actor; Scott Maslen, actor; Diederick Santer, MD Lovely Day; John Yorke, controller BBC Drama Production.
17.03: A montage of EE's best moments. Altogether now: "Yes I aaaaaam!"
17.08: DS: The idea for the live episode came about because the team decided to have a murder at Christmas and the reveal of the whodunit in February. Grappling with the issue of protecting the secret, the team agreed to not tell anyone else until the night of a live episode in order to ensure it could not possibly leak.
17.11: JY: Very hard to keep a secret, things always end up sneaking out - like who shot Phil. The live episode seemed like a great idea.
DS: 6 people knew, the director knew that week and the actors knew just before the episode knew just before it went up.
17.15: Discussing how they decided which character committed the murder, Simon Ashdown explains: "Had a list of the cast and went down it to create that 'shiver' moment. Janine could have done it but she's killed before; we settled on Peggy, but then we found out that Barbara Windsor had decided to leave. Like most of these ideas it just appeared as a notion... we settled on Stacey. It gave us loads of story afterwards."
17.19: "It felt good" to be at the centre of the storyline, says Clemets. "Didn't get the script for ages, there was a real buzz about it. Put my money on Ryan as he was in love with Janine."
17.20: Secrecy was an added burden during the writing process, says Ashdown. In terms of the live episode, the logistics of how the actors could physically move from one location to another had to be taken into account. "It was a massive jigsaw puzzle."
17.21: DS says he wanted as many cast in the show as possible and have the episode be "as buzzy as possible". The line producer had produced two live eps of The Bill and supported the desire to be ambitious.
17.23: John Yorke: "There was a backup tape, but that would have been a disaster."
17.24: JY reveals an actor called the night beforehand and ranted down the phone. "They were letting off the terror of what you guys were facing," he said.
17.25: DS - the dress run went okay but they did some editing on the script. "I cheerfully issued the changed scenes to the actors and they all went kind of nuts. It was my mistake; I hadn't appreciated the extent to which the rehearsals and script had been agreed and that was their comfort blanket. We, er, had a conversation."
17.26: Scott Maslen: "No-one really knew what it was. No-one knew the sort of pressure of live because it hadn't been done before."
17.27: CC says he preferred having the opportunity to rehearse for this episode; normally, rehearsals are not part of the process at EastEnders.
17.28: There were three dress rehearsals but not all went to plan. We see a clip where the police car crashes.
17.29: DS rang JY to tell him that Lacey Turner lost her voice. "The doctor says she won't be able to speak for 2.5 weeks." They knew she was the killer; nobody else did. They got "the best throat specialist in the country" to look at Turner's throat; Yorke went to Jay Hunt to explain. Turner was not allowed to speak during rehearsals... cue amusing clips showing various crew standing in for her as the other actors nail down the dialogue.
17.34: DS called multiple people into his office so that people in the corridor wouldn't see Turner going in to get the news that she was going to be the killer. "It's you," he told her. She immediately started thinking about the scene - 10 different endings had been rehearsed.
17.36: The topic turns to Scott Maslen's experience at live episodes. He explained - given his slight slip on the night, which he and the audience are treated to seeing again - that "it was a space and time moment". "I was about to say 'can we go again' as we normally do... but then it came back. It was horrible, it lasted for a month, waking up and saying 'I know the line'."
17.39: Charlie Clements on his last-ever appearance in EastEnders. "I was so scared about running up and down and then playing dead... I was knackered. I was worried about holding my breath and being still."
17.44: We see footage of CC on BBC Three after the live episode came off air on One. SM explains CC had been holding it together all the way through - emotional because of it being his last episode. It didn't register when crew informed him Stacey was the killer.
17.46: Cuts of other characters coming to view the scene of Bradley lying on the ground were put in to cover the arrangements and removal of equipment.
17.47: DS reveals that Rita Simons jumped forward in the script, and that Barbara - "60 years in showbiz, doesn't use much of Simon's dialogue, has played the character for so long, pulls the show back into where it should be".
17.49: JY: Finding the next big reinvention of the genre will take a couple of years.
Now follows a preview of September scenes: Phil sets fire to the Queen Vic, which subsequently explodes in a sequence of huge fireballs; Alfie and Kat return to the Slater family.
17.54: JY responds to Tony Warren's comments from earlier today: "Coronation Street should probably credit General Hospital", jokes John Yorke. "No, they were there first and I respect them an awful lot. Of course we probably wouldn't be there without them."
17.55: DS: The backup plan, should Turner's voice not return, would be that her big scenes would have been dropped in on tape. "It would have just felt compromised."
18.00: DS always wanted to bring Kathy and Cindy Beale back - "but both characters were dead. Further shark jumping." SA would bring back David Wicks.
Scott Maslen has admitted that he felt "horrible" for a while after his slip-up on EastEnders Live.
Maslen, 39, fluffed his lines on the 25th anniversary episode, despite being the only actor to have previously starred in a live edition of a serial during his time on The Bill.
Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, he said: "It was a space and time moment. I was about to say 'Can we go again?' as we normally do... but then it came back. It was horrible, it lasted for a month, waking up and saying 'I know the line'."
Diederick Santer, the show's former executive producer, also revealed that Rita Simons (Roxy Mitchell) jumped ahead in the script on the night.
Aww, bless him. It must have been horrible to have made the most obvious mistake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita