Laila Rouass then creative head of the channel, Shamin Desai. After moving back to the UK, Rouass became famous for playing the role of Bollywood actress Amber Gates in the cult ITV1 series "Footballers' Wives" between 2004 and 2006 and, albeit briefly, on the ITV2 spin-off series "". She also played recurring roles on the British soaps "Family Affairs" and "Hollyoaks", as well as appearing in episodes of "I Dream", "Casualty" and "Meet the Magoons". She starred alongside Meera Syal in the television adaptation of Syal's novel, "Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee." Rouass was ranked No.87 and No.69 on FHM
Laila Rouass 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2004 and FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005 respectively. In 2009 she appeared as Egyptologist Sarah Page in the third series of the ITV science-fiction series "Primeval". She left the show when location of filming was changed to Dublin, for series four and five, saying it would be hard to continue participating as she was a single parent. In spring of 2010, Rouass announced that she will be making a film about Leila Khaled, who led the hijacking of a flight from Rome to Athens in 1969. Rouass stated she had funding