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
Brian Wilde major television success was in 1970 as refuse depot manager "Bloody Delilah" in the ITV sitcom "The Dustbinmen". He showed his sinister side as the mischievous magician Mr Peacock in the children's drama series "Ace of Wands" between 1970 and 1972. That year he starred as a murderer in "The Uninvited", an episode of the BBC's supernatural thriller series "Out of the Unknown". Also in 1971, in the television drama "Elizabeth R", Wilde played the efficient, merciless 'rackmaster' Richard Topcliffe, who was charged with the torture of prisoners in the Tower of London. He played a character in the 1970s