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 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