Footballers' Wives Lucker, Sarah Barrand, Laila Rouass, Halacy Kurenski and Ben Richards, who played their respective roles, with "Sport Relief" host Graham Norton playing new Sparks captain Brendan Spunk. Between the third and fourth series of "Footballers' Wives", Zöe Lucker's character Tanya Turner crossed over to Shed Media's "Bad Girls" for three episodes of that programme's sixth series. In "Bad Girls", which centres on a women's prison, Tanya is convicted for drug possession and sent to jail for six months. After stirring up mischief in the prison and even being arrested for poisoning inmates, Tanya is eventually released when a series of
Strictly Come Dancing Come Dancing"'s internet message board. Dixon was compared unfavourably to Phillips, with claims that the former was "unsuitable", "unqualified" and lacked "knowledge, experience and talent". However, Dixon was praised and defended from her critics by the BBC, by fellow judge Craig Revel Horwood and by Phillips herself. In 2009, during the seventh series, professional dancer Anton du Beke issued a public apology for his use of a racial slur during a conversation with his dance partner Laila Rouass. Du Beke claimed that the comment, which was never broadcast, was a joke referring to Rouass' spray-tan, in which he said that