Laila Rouass one of the presenters of "The Channel 4 TV Book Club". She participated in the seventh series of "Strictly Come Dancing", a BBC One reality show, paired with professional dancer Anton Du Beke, and alongside "Footballers' Wives" co-star Zöe Lucker. The pair made it to the last four before being voted off the show on 6 December. She failed to show up for the final on 19 December to reprise her partnership with Anton Du Beke. The show's host, Bruce Forsyth, offered no reason for her absence although he did do so for the other missing celebrity, Phil Tufnell, who
Laila Rouass had influenza. Rouass' first film was "City of Dreams" produced by Feroze Nadiawala, in which she starred opposite Lisa Ray and Saeed Jaffery. During the years that she was based in India, early in her career, she acted in some Indian films, Aditya Bhattacharya's Indo-Italian "Senso unico" (1999) and Dev Benegal's "Split Wide Open" (1999). In 2000, Rouass starred in Jag Mhundra's controversial film, "Bawandar" (English title; "The Sand Storm"), about revenge rapes in Rajasthan, and she made her English-language film debut in 2002 with a small role in "The Four Feathers" opposite Heath Ledger. She starred in "The Hunt