‘Footballers’ Wives’ followers are sometimes surprised once they see Laila Rouass purchasing in grocery store Iceland – as a result of they suppose she ought to be shopping for items in Waitrose as a substitute.
The ‘EastEnders’ actress portrayed Amber Gates within the ITV drama from 2004 to 2006, and the 53-year-old star admitted supporters nonetheless typically name her by her character title, regardless of her final showing within the present practically 20 years in the past, and followers are notably shocked in the event that they see her selecting up bargains slightly than splashing the money.
Talking on ‘This Morning’, she stated: “While you’re in [supermarket] Iceland everybody goes, ‘What are you doing in Iceland? You need to be in Waitrose. What are you purchasing in right here for?’
“I will at all times be Amber Gates.”
Laila has advised how she would typically ring up the producers and say she could not do sure ‘Footballers’ Wives’ scenes, as a result of they have been “fully outrageous”.
She stated: “You’ll get the scripts and I might be phoning up the producers going, ‘We won’t do that. That is outrageous.’
“And so they have been like, ‘That is why we’re doing it.’
“Me and Ben Richards could be consistently doing take after take, as a result of we simply could not cease laughing.
“A number of the issues have been simply loopy.”
Nevertheless, the star “completely cherished” her time on the programme, which ran from 2002 to 2006 and starred the likes of Zoe Lucker, Gary Lucy, Susie Amy, ‘Coronation Road’ actor Ben Worth and Laila’s ‘EastEnders’ co-star Gillian Taylforth.
She added: “It was fully outrageous. And it was a lot enjoyable. The characters have been completely psychological.
“I used to be a whole bunny boiler and I completely cherished it.
“You might go wherever, you would go so far as you needed with the characters.
“In ‘Footballers’ Wives’ land it labored – everybody believed it.”
