EE: What happens to stars after they leave....

Post by **eefanincan** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:57 pm

pirtybirdy wrote:I'm glad to see her in something else other than a black jacket!

Too right! And the "denim mini skirt".

Post by **faceless** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:21 pm

[web]https://www.thisiskent.co.uk/tunbridgewe ... ticle.html[/web]
I'm not sure, but did she play the mother of the young guy who wrapped everything in tinfoil?

pirtybirdy · Post by **pirtybirdy** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:08 pm

she was the italian mom. beppe and gianni I think.

can't remember her character's name! lol!

Post by **faceless** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:31 pm

Ah right yeah, that's her. She was always in a fluster about something.

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I PUT MY KIDS ON ICE (But skating will bring us all back together)
EXCLUSIVE Ex-EastEnder Todd on how he paid price of Dancing on Ice TV
By Jon Wise
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Dancing on Ice contestant Todd Carty has told how his busy TV career robbed him of precious years with his children. Todd, 45, who played Mark Fowler in EastEnders for 12 years, now plans to make up for that by passing on his new skating skills to them.

During a break from practising for tomorrow night's start of the ITV1 celeb ice dancing contest, he told The People: "Career-wise I have been very lucky. And I have two wonderful children that my wife Dina has done a fantastic job of bringing up. I'm getting misty eyed just talking about them. Things don't come free in life, you have to graft and work. And if I have any regrets it would be that I'd have loved to spendmore time with my children when they were growing up. But that's the life of a soap actor. It's a reason for doing the show. I can spend time with them and teach them to skate."

Todd has sons James, 12, and Thomas, eight, with his wife and childhood sweetheart Dina, 37. He shot to fame as Tucker Jenkins in kids' favourite Grange Hill before landing the role of Mark in the BBC1 soap 1990. He quit EastEnders in 2002 and then played bent copper PC Gabriel Kent in ITV1's The Bill.

Todd said: "I had 12 years at EastEnders, three at The Bill and eight at Grange Hill, including the spin-off Tucker's Luck. It's long days and a lot of time away from the kids. Recently I did a show called Dangerous Adventures For Boys with my son James. I spent an intense two weeks with him and learnt things about him that I never knew before."

Todd's family feared they would NEVER see him again after he collapsed on-stage during a theatre play last year. He was rushed to hospital but fortunately only had a severe ear infection. He said: "I've been as fit as a flea since then, touch wood, although I could do with losing a few pounds."

Todd is counting on Dancing on Ice to get rid of those. He admits he has found the training tough. Todd said: "My dance partner Suzie Lipanova is being quite strict with me - but that's what I need. I used to go ice skating as a teenager so I could chat up the girls. I wasn't very good. I had to cling on to the side. Now I can get around on my own it's a great feeling. It's tough, a brown trouser job. But when you do a move right and your partner says, 'well done, Toddy', you feel a million dollars.

"We're all getting on and supporting each other - at the moment. Come Sunday it may all be different with the competitive streak. I will do my best. Coach Christopher Dean said I'm not a natural skater. I don't know how polite he was being - but I think if the world champion says Todd is not a natural skater you can draw your own conclusions. But I am a grafter and that will be my approach. I went all macho about the outfits and wanted black - so I'll probably get pink. This show is as camp as a row of tents and I knew that when I signed up. I'm looking forward to the fake tan."

Todd has been promised support by his mates from EastEnders. He is still close to Wendy Richard, 65, who played his mum Pauline Fowler. He was distraught when she revealed last year she is dying of cancer. He said: "I was very upset. Wendy is a wonderful person. She sent me her best. And Adam Woodyatt, who plays Ian Beale, has assured me I have their vote. Dancing on Ice is exciting and crazy. I'm a lucky man."

pirtybirdy · Post by **pirtybirdy** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:40 pm

I'm not sure how the whole "childhood sweetheart" thing works with his 37 year old wife. He's 45. It'd make more sense if they were close in age. At any rate, I wish him luck. He seems to be a nice enough guy, but got a bit boring on Eastenders near the end.

Post by **faceless** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:34 pm

[align=center]Ex-EastEnders star Brooke Kinsella awarded £50k over theatre accident
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EX-EastEnders star Brooke Kinsella has been awarded £50,000 damages over a theatre accident. She tripped pre-show on a dark staircase backstage in the Soho Theatre in London. The actress, whose brother Ben, 16, was murdered last year, broke her elbow in the May 2005 incident.

Despite being in agony, she insisted the show must go on in front of a packed house. But she went to hospital in excruciating pain the next day and had to have two operations. She was left unable to dress or wash herself alone and could not do any work that required movement. She only returned to acting in June 2006. She still has restricted movement in the elbow nearly four years later.

The theatre said it needed to keep the area by the stairs dark because it did not want light leaking onto the stage. But the Judge at at Central London County Court said there was no excuse when performances were not going on. White strips on the stairs could have avoided the accident, he added.

Brooke, 25, was awarded the cash after the Soho Theatre Company was found to have been negligent and breached rules on adequate lighting.

Post by **Skylace** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:16 pm

They didn't use glow tape on the stairs? WTF?!? That's just madness. I have never been in a theatre that didn't have the stairs lit in some way back stage. There is no way the strips of glow tape would leak light onto the stage. Bastards.

Post by **faceless** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:46 pm

It's a really popular and well known theatre too - not some backstreet venue.

Post by **Skylace** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:52 pm

That is what got to me as well. For a place like that not to be following basic safety guidelines is bonkers. I've worked in rinky dink community theatres with better safety.

SpursFan1902 · Post by **SpursFan1902** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:16 pm

Poor Brooke, she really has had a tough go of it.

Post by **faceless** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:35 pm

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Ex-Eastenders star launches libel claim
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A former cast member on popular British soap Eastenders has begun legal proceedings in a case of alleged libel. Mohammed George, who played Gus in the TV show, is seeking damages from the Sun newspaper over a story it printed concerning an argument he had with his girlfriend, the Press Gazette reports.

In an article printed by the publication, it was alleged that he flew into a rage in the early hours of the morning on December 3rd 2006 and beat up his then girlfriend and mother of his child. Speaking to jurors in a London hearing, George's legal representative said: "He wants to complain ... about articles that appeared in the Sun newspaper about him which he says seriously and unfairly damaged his reputation." He added that the actor said the story provided "a false picture" and had affected his prospects as an actor.

News Group Newspapers, which publishes the Sun - as well as the News of the World and the Times - denies libel and the case remains ongoing.

Post by **eefanincan** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:42 am

Has he done anything since leaving EE?

Post by **faceless** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:32 pm

[web]https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7980627.stm[/web]

Post by **faceless** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:01 pm

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pirtybirdy · Post by **pirtybirdy** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:44 am

I miss that sexy momma. I wish they could bring him back from the dead like a ghost or something.....Nevermind, that would be too much like an American daytime soap opera...lol! Thanks for the clip! :-)