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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.
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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.
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Didn't he fluff up when he was on The Bill and they did the live episode.
So they say
EastEnders actress Gillian Wright has praised the relationship between Jean and Stacey - and labelled it "unique".
The actress first appeared as Jean in 2004, the mum of troubled Stacey (Lacey Turner), and both actresses bow out of the soap this year.
Gillian told Inside Soap: "Her relationship with Stacey is unique. Not just because they both live with bipolar disorder, either.
"There's a lot of comedy and they really care for each other. It's all a bit strange at times, but there's a huge amount of love as well."
Gillian said she has no idea what her exit plot holds, but hopes to be offered "something different" for her next role.
EastEnders actor Sid Owen has confirmed his plans to marry long-term partner Polly Parsons.
The soap star revealed in an interview with OK magazine that he got engaged six months ago during a holiday in Barbados.
"I didn't have a ring so I got this guy on the beach to make one out of beads in the reggae colours, as I love my reggae, and I put that in my back pocket and we swam out [to a raft] and I proposed," he said.
Owen and Parsons met four years ago when they both starred in panto Snow White. However, they spent some time apart earlier this year when plans for a wedding this September "became too much" for the couple.
"It was getting ridiculous. We had about a thousand people coming," said Parsons. "It would have been about everyone else - now we've had time apart, we know what's important. It just started to get out of hand and it scared me.
"We had some time apart. But it made us appreciate each other and realise we wanted to be together."
The duo are now planning their nuptials for 2011 and are considering possible venues in France or Barbados.
Michelle Collins has admitted that she is glad EastEnders killed off Cindy Beale.
The actress told What's On TV that she would "probably" have made a return to the BBC soap if the character had been kept alive. Cindy died off screen giving birth in 1998.
"I think Cindy being dead is a good thing," she said. "It removes any temptation to go back.
"I probably would've gone back by now if she were not dead. I look back with fondness and she's become almost iconic, but it was 14 years ago now."
Collins will appear alongside former EastEnders cast member Michael French in BBC hospital drama Casualty. She confessed that they had been nervous about filming scenes together.
"The last time we worked together we were doing rude things in a Portakabin as Cindy and David!" she said. "I think we were both a bit nervous to be honest. It was nice though, he said I'd aged quite well and I said he'd aged quite well too."
She added: "There's no sexual tension this time!"
EASTENDER Barbara Windsor is having a pop at the charts - as bosses plan to release Peggy Mitchell's exit song on iTunes.
Peggy leaves this month with a reworking of the soap's theme tune written especially for her.
In 1986 Angie Watts actress Anita Dobson got to No4 with her version of the song using lyrics: "Anyone can fall in love... "
A source told TV Biz: "It would be amazing to get EastEnders back in the charts."
Ex-EastEnders actor Nigel Harman has joined the cast of Shrek: The Musical, it has been announced.
Harman, who played Dennis Rickman in the BBC soap, will take on the role of Lord Farquaad in the West End production.
The title role of Shrek will be played by Four Lions star Nigel Lindsay, BBC News reports.
The production's producers Bill Damaschke and Caro Newling said that the actors "blew us away with their audition performances". They are continuing to cast a further 28 roles.
In July, it was announced that Amanda Holden and RIchard Blackwood had signed on as Princess Fiona and Donkey respectively.
Shrek: The Musical is scheduled to open at the Theatre Royal on Drury Lane in May 2011.
EastEnders star Emer Kenny has revealed that the door has been left open for her to return to the soap.
It was announced in May that the actress, who plays Zsa Zsa Carter, would be leaving the show, and she admitted that saying goodbye had been emotional.
Speaking of her exit, she told PA: "All I can say is it's a very Zsa Zsa ending and it suits the character. The door is open, which is very nice - I'd absolutely consider going back.
"It was really emotional. It's just like leaving behind a massive family. I really miss it - but onwards and upwards."
Kenny also discussed her part in writing the second series of EastEnders: E20, saying: "I really wanted it to start with a bang. As soon as you come in it's exciting, there's sex and romance and kissing. I wanted it to be really fresh."
She added that she has a part in the first episode of the new series, along with her former co-stars: "It's just a tiny moment," she said. "I don't play a significant part. I just wanted to have the old one coming into contact with the new one and the passing the baton."
Barbara Windsor will reportedly feature in a new advertising campaign just minutes after her final appearance in EastEnders.
PA reports that Windsor will play the 'Queen Of Bingo' in the adverts for a bingo website. She will also be heard using the giggle she made famous in the Carry On movies.
"EastEnders marks the end of one of the happiest chapters of my life but I'm really excited about the future - the giggle is back for good," she said. "Long live the 'Queen Of Bingo'!"
It was not confirmed which day the first commercial will air, but it will be shown on ITV1 15 minutes following the 73-year-old's last episode of EastEnders.
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EastEnders star Scott Maslen has revealed that he would like his character Jack Branning to marry Ronnie Mitchell (Samantha Womack).
The actor told Inside Soap that he thinks the pair would have a dramatic life together and predicted that they would become a "bickering old couple".
He said: "I'd like him to marry Ronnie. And then I'd like Jack to build a panic room to keep Ronnie in! She's a bit of a bunny boiler. She's not well - she's never dealt with the issues from her past.
"A wedding would be fun because I've never had a soap one. I expect there'll be a lot of drama and a bit of philandering.
"Jack and Ronnie are great together. I reckon they'll be one of those bickering old couples like my nan and granddad."
Speaking of Ronnie's pregnancy, he added: "Something has to go wrong with the pregnancy doesn't it? In fact, I think the viewers would be a little bit offended if it didn't and Jack and Ronnie's life became normal, without problems or trauma.
"I always expect the unexpected for them - to be honest, I'd start to panic if everything was hunky dory."
BBC soap EastEnders has denied reports that rapper 50 Cent is to make a cameo appearance in the show.
A tabloid newspaper today claims that 50 - real name Curtis Jackson - will film a one-off spot on the drama within the next six months after "weeks of talks" with bosses.
The rumour surfaced after the hip-hop star revealed that he is a fan of Barbara Windsor's iconic character Peggy Mitchell, who bowed out of Albert Square on Friday night.
50 is quoted as saying: "I really wanted Peggy to throw me out of her pub, but I didn't get it organised quick enough and it's too late now.
"I've performed with Eminem and Justin Timberlake, acted with De Niro and Pacino, had a guest spot on The Simpsons - in the US a sign you've made it to the very top - but I can't fulfil my biggest showbiz dream."
Dismissing suggestions that the star will soon be filming at Elstree, an EastEnders spokesperson told DS: "We're flattered he's a fan, but there have been no talks about him appearing in the show."
Reports suggest that 50 became aware of EastEnders after his footballer friend Rio Ferdinand introduced him to the soap.
ACTRESS Charlie Brooks reckons on-screen hubby Ryan Malloy (Neil McDermott, 29) has changed her conniving character's ways.
Charlie, 29, plays serial gold-digger Janine Butcher.
But BBC1 star Charlie said: "It's the first time she doesn't try to make money out of a man."
The Sun
EASTENDERS' Rita Simons is getting into the spirits of her new role - running her own pub for a BBC Three show.
The actress - whose character Roxy has worked in the Queen Vic for three years - is spending a week at the boozer for the programme, Beyond Walford.
Just like the Vic, it's at the heart of its East End community.
Rita, 33, has been pulling pints, changing barrels and listening to regulars drown their sorrows.
She said: "It's been an insight seeing what it's like to run a real pub.
"I just hope I don't get carried away and start barring people - as Roxy does."
Beyond Walford will air later this year.
The Sun
Jessie Wallace is loving life back on the Square - but her new slimline figure has posed a couple of problems for the costume department.
The soap star, who returned as tarty Kat Slater on EastEnders last week, said: "I've had to hoist my boobs up because I've none left."
Jessie, who celebrated her 40th birthday yesterday, slimmed down to a size 10 by running three miles a day.
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EastEnders boss Bryan Kirkwood plans to make the show happier, we can reveal.
The executive producer is fed up with everyone thinking the show is constantly miserable - so he wants to turn Albert Square into Albert Cheer. Kirkwood intends to make the BBC1 show's characters get on better with one another.
And he's basing his success on the views of cabbies. He told a friend: "I want to get in a taxi and not have the driver say to me, 'I don't watch it because it's too miserable'."
And a source told us: "It's about time something was done to cheer up folk in Walford."
BBC soaps such as EastEnders and Holby City are facing swingeing budget cuts as the National Audit Office examines the Corporation’s books.
Actors’ fees and outdoor filming could be slashed as BBC bosses look for big savings off the £200million drama budget.
The accountants moved into Albert Square at the start of the summer for a six-month investigation and will report to the BBC Trust early next year.
The cutbacks could threaten the very survival of some shows, such as Doctors.
The audit will cover everything from casting to spectacular plot lines, such as the recent fire in the Queen Vic. It will also look at how much time is spent rehearsing and at production schedules. An EastEnders source warned: “It’s going to hit morale.”
Although the BBC Trust will publish the report, individual actors’ fees will be kept secret despite the Government’s wish that the Corporation be more transparent. Soap actors can earn up to £200,000 a year.
A BBC Trust spokesman said: “Talent fees are an editorial decision rather than related to the value-for-money study.”
The National Audit Office said: “The study will examine how well the BBC is managing the cost of producing continuing drama. It will consider how resources are allocated and costs controlled.”
Meanwhile, ITV is spending a rumoured £2million killing off several Coronation Street characters in a tram disaster in a spectacular 50th anniversary episode.
Nina Wadia is used to fans getting hot under the collar over Zainab Masood's homophobic attitude towards gay son Syed.
But it's another kettle of fish entirely when they praise her for it.
Describing the public reaction, Nina told Metro: "I walked past some builders in Southall who told me to the give the characters Syed and Christian a good hiding and teach them a lesson.
"I was shocked they said that. That they thought being homophobic was a good thing."
"They laughed and walked off, which made me feel horrible."
Nina said the response from fans differs "enormously" from the recognition she received from her role in Goodness Gracious Me.
"Some people take soaps very seriously and want to discuss the social issues you're portraying. I don't want to have a political discussion every time I go to the shops." At least they care!
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That along with the imminent departure of Beetroot Man should save the BBC a fortune.
Ofcom has today dismissed a complaint from a mother that EastEnders infringed her privacy by featuring footage of her giving birth.
In episodes of the BBC One soap opera broadcast on May 11 and 12 this year, the Ian Beale character showed his daughter Lucy a DVD featuring footage of one his "employees" giving birth in an attempt to scare her into having an abortion.
The BBC had sourced the footage from an educational film produced by the National Childbirth Trust of a woman, dubbed Ms K by the media regulator, during and after the birth of her son.
However, Ms K submitted a complaint to Ofcom that her and her son's privacy had been "unwarrantably infringed" by the two episodes.
She claimed that her consent had never been sought before the footage was aired, while EastEnders had "trampled" over the birth of her son and permanently ruined her memories of the occasion.
In response, the BBC said that the footage of Ms K giving birth was placed in the public domain by the NCT with her full consent.
The corporation also said that the DVD had been made freely available to "any mum-to-be in the UK" for three years prior to the episodes being broadcast.
Despite acknowledging that the footage of Ms K was of a "very intimate and personal nature", Ofcom decided to dismiss her complaint.
The media regulator noted that her expectations of privacy were "limited by her decision to permit the birth to be filmed by the NCT and disseminated to the public at large".
"Taking into account the fact that the material used in these programmes had been so widely disseminated during the previous three years, and the nature and extent of the material used in the broadcast, Ofcom does not consider that the privacy of either Ms K or her son was unwarrantably infringed in the programmes as broadcast," said the watchdog.
"Accordingly Ofcom has not upheld Ms K's complaint of unwarranted infringement of her privacy, and that of her son, in the broadcast of the programme."
We didnt actually see the film?! Was just their reactions to it.
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ACTOR Ricky Norwood has confessed his Sugababes lover is not so sweet when it comes to his on-screen kissing scenes.
Ricky, who plays funnyman Fat Boy in the soap, is dating sexy singer Jade Ewen, 22.
But she punches him on the arm every time she sees him locking lips.
Ricky, 22, said: “She knows it’s only Fat Boy kissing another girl but that doesn’t matter, I still get a punch in the arm. I warned her ahead of my first screen kiss and she still punched me.
“So I decided not to say anything when Fat Boy snogged Denise.”
Sweet :)
SCOTT Maslen has got his EastEnders bosses in a flap because he’s developing a healthy-looking tan.
The hunk, who plays Jack Branning in the soap, is being forced to have a spray tan every week in preparation for the ballroom talent show which kicks off on BBC1 on Friday.
But Scott, 39, admits this is causing headaches for his Walford bosses. Scriptwriters are struggling to explain why Jack, who has spent most of the year in a wheelchair after being shot, has got the tan.
Scott joked: “Peggy’s in France so he might visit her, or even go to Spain for a quick top-up!”
We didnt know that Peggy was in France lol a soap spoiler there?!
More likely a printing error, meaning Penny, his daughter:p
oh yeah lol
The EastEnders favourite, played by Lacey Turner, is tracked down by old flame Ryan Malloy after she leaves Walford with her baby girl Lily.
The couple have a steamy clinch on the bonnet of his motor, but then Stacey has a change of heart and storms off again with Lily.
Ryan (Neil McDermott) screams after her to come back in the scenes to be aired later this year.
Actress Lacey, 22, announced in April she was quitting the soap.
So this really could be the Ender Stacey.
The thought of performing live tends to fill actors with nerves and worry.
With the possibility that anything can go wrong, most thespians prefer to hide behind the safety and security of filmed episodes - except Lacey Turner.
The EastEnders starlet, who recently picked up yet another best actress gong for her portrayal of troubled Stacey, says she gets such a buzz out of live acting that her favourite storyline was the live episode last February, when she was unveiled as Archie's killer.
"I loved doing the live episode - if it were up to me, every episode would be live, but I'm not sure the rest of the cast would agree with that," she told Inside Soap.
"It was the fastest 30 minutes of my life, and the atmosphere was unbelievable."
Lacey, who will be bowing out after playing Stacey for six years, has been taken aback by the public's reaction to her character.
"I'm so happy that people love Stacey. I think the viewers sympathise with Stacey because she's been through so many terrible things.They always have nice things to say. They feel sorry for her, so she quite literally gets away with murder!" added the 22-year-old.
She'll be doing theatre next then lol.