Alison Steadman in the late Mike Stott's "My Mad Grandad" on BBC Radio 4. In Manchester in 1972, shooting his television film "Hard Labour", director Mike Leigh drove over to Liverpool to see Ted Whitehead's play "The Foursome", (Steadman was in the Liverpool Everyman cast). He asked Steadman to be in his film. "During the preparation of the film, Mike and Alison, as they both say, 'got together.'" They married in 1973 and had two sons, Toby (b. February 1978) and Leo (b. August 1981). The couple separated in 1995 and divorced in 2001. Steadman's present partner is Michael Elwyn;the couple live
Alison Newman Alison is married to Hugh Williams, a graphic designer. They live in Hackney, East London. Alison Newman Alison Newman (born 25 January 1968) is a British actress, best known for her role in the hit ITV1 television series "Footballers' Wives" as Hazel Bailey, and as DI Samantha Keeble in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders". Alison Newman was born in Bournemouth, Hampshire (now Dorset) to David and Jenny Newman. She has one sister called Sarah. Both her parents were school teachers who encouraged her to take up acting as a hobby, but discouraged her from attending stage school when she was